[Carry_Okie]

I am about to the point, where I won't trust anything coming out from the investigation board.

Remember all the weaseling by NASA and Morton/Thiokol after the Challenger accident? They had to bring in Feynman to bring out the obvious.

[Normal4me]

In all fairness, Thiokol engineers warned NASA not to fly.

I don't understand how this test and results would have not had a MAJOR aerodynamic effect on the orbiter on accent. You think the orbiter would have flown 17K MPH with a 16" hole in its wing without blowing apart before reaching space? BS!

[snopercod]

Once again, NASA supported the RCC sections with glued on external struts. You can see them in all the pictures.

Why are they doing this? Are the RCC sections not attached via their normal hardware, or are they trying to protect the normal attach hardware because it is a known weak point and would fail in these tests, blowing away the entire RCC section?