what crap - "First of all I don't think the NASA Director made any such statements the day of the disaster. The Shuttle Flight Director was highly skeptical that the foam incident was the "root cause." But I think you will find that the analysis that was done did indicate some damage was likely to have ocurred."
We have an engineering/science project here - not a clinton political lying press conference. He stood up there plain as day and dismissed the foam as a cause in the very first press conference.
45 posted on 07/08/2003 9:02 PM PDT by XBob
To: ironman
my major initial impression on the first press conference, where the foam was dismissed, is that the one delivering the pronouncement was a fool, who know knew nothing about what was going on. similar idiotic statements in the next 2 or 3 conferences confirmed it.
61 posted on 07/09/2003 10:07 AM PDT by XBob
I agree with your sentiments, but think you're being too generous in the second response. Instilling ignorance here implies innocence. I am not convinced of that by any means. These folks ignored a potential threat to the orbiter and tried to downplay the significance of that. Ron Dittimore most certainly knew better than what he was trying to pass off on 02/01/2003. At least that's my take. He's no dummy. I still maintain that his actions on 02/01/2003 were dictated by malfeasance by NASA personnel prior to that.