[Patton@Bastogne]

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VeniVidiVici,


You wrote: "Just last night I was thinking that I couldn't believe after hundreds of shuttle flights this all of a sudden became a problem."


I worked at the Martin-Marietta Michoud Facility (New Orleans) between 1983 and 1988 ...

as a SOFI (Sprayed-On-Foam-Insulation) Manufacturing Engineer for the Space Shuttle External Tank Program,

while attending the University of New Orleans (erasing my mechanical engineering degree).


Trust me, Martin-Marietta did it's best to cover-up reams of data that "clearly" indicated that the Foam Insulation had serious "adhesion issues" to the outer aluminum skin.

A few months after I'd presented my data, and it was (independently) confirmed by a NASA Huntsville aerodynamic engineer ...

Guess what happened ?

The "respectable engineer" (me) was quietly terminated ... while the local NASA goons sat silently by ... refusing to even listen to review the data.

Trust me, I could list the names of the respective mismanagement and engineering "players" involved ... but it wouldn't do any good ... the game is fixed.



Patton@Bastogne



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[backtothestreets]

"the game is fixed."

It sure is.  That was my feeling while on the program too.  People would be astonished just how far up the fix being made.