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Developing. Watch MSNBC for latest. Internal memo shows some engineers believe there was up to a 7 1/2-inch gash from the foam breakoff at launch. Memo was serious enough to go out to all NASA centers two days before disaster.

Aha! Despite all the bashing of me for DARING to question the sacred Mission Control, more and more evidence emerges of the sheer laziness and negligence of the NASA brass. Some people treat MC as the engineering Vatican, which can never be questioned. Nonsense. If it is truly found that negligence can be established then someone should do prison time for this, as should have the brass who KNEW about the Morton Thiakol warning about the Challenger "O" rings, and did nothing out of sheer arrogance.

[HairOfTheDog]

If it is truly found that negligence can be established then someone should do prison time for this...

Good luck finding the next generation of people willing to put everyting on the line and take risks for this country. We need to be deserving of them.

In all of this, I hope that those who carry the actual weight of making these decisions can find peace. These decisions where put before them, not us.

[Kevin Curry]

Yeah. That's what it is. Sheer arrogance. They probably got a perverse thrill out of seeing the shuttle disintegrate over Texas. They probably even had side bets on which counties the debris would fall into. I can well understand your rage.

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