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To: LM_Guy
The dings to the shuttle tiles were from ice, not foam. The new foam falling off is not really that bad but unfortunately it looks like it was caused from the changes made solve the problem for the original location.

NASA: We were wrong to launch. Future missions suspended due to foam-insulation danger.

75 posted on 07/27/2005 9:47:16 PM PDT by Dan Evans
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To: Dan Evans
I was just commenting that in the past most tile damage was from ice and not foam. The underside of the Orbiter routinely in the past got peppered with ice.

I a large foam piece that could hit the wing is what has gotten them concerned about now, and that foam piece did go by the wing and not the Orbiter's underbelly.
131 posted on 07/28/2005 10:38:50 AM PDT by LM_Guy
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