[Servant of the Nine]

from what I've heard this morning,(Lovell,Aldrin et al.)it would appear that the computers that control the angle at which the shuttle makes contact with the atmosphere for re-entry failed!It's

NO.

What they said is that they could have failed. There are triple redundant computers. All three must give the same results or the odd one is locked out.

This is far more likely to be a result of Tank Insulation damaging tiles on the wing leading edge on takeoff. If that happened, white hot gas at 12,000 mph would have blown into the wing.

SO9

[freedumb2003]

>>This is far more likely to be a result of Tank Insulation damaging tiles on the wing <<

Occam's razor. Does anyone know if they went EVA to inspect the damage?

[FreeAtlanta]

The guy who filmed some of the footage, had filmed a lot of other shuttles. He said that he noticed before the break up that the shuttle seemed to be moving faster than usual.

[operation clinton cleanup]

This is far more likely to be a result of Tank Insulation damaging tiles on the wing leading edge on takeoff.

That will probably be the final judgement.. three years from now.