[One Sided Media]

You seem to be very knowledgable about the shuttle so I am curious as to what you think most likely caused the destruction of the craft. If you have multiple possible answers can you assign a probability to them? I believe in the Expectancy Value theorem so you should get pretty close if you are actually as informed as you appear.

[_Jim]

I am curious as to what you think most likely caused the destruction of the craft.

Good evening and sorry about the delay ...

What likely caused the destruction of the craft - first causal agent, a loss of a component in the exterior Heat Protection System BUT that was only the first in a string of events leading up to the destruction of STS-107 and I'd like to get into that this evening in our continueing lecture series ...