To: Jael
NASA has already comfirmed it was insulation from the fuel tank.You have mis-intewrpreted what NASA said. The truth is that they presented the problem to a set of engineers with the "assumption" that the insulation was the factor and they are working it through to see if it fits.
They have not made a determination as of yet. This is a exercise to determine if the insulation could have caused it. Nothing more.....
To: wirestripper
Sorry to correct you. It has been comfirmed as being insulation. They knew that when they started running all the "possiblity test" to determine what kind of damage it might have done.
They concluded, as Dittmore said, that it would not have been significant damage. And he also said, even if it was, there was nothing they could do about it.
315 posted on
02/03/2003 8:01:35 PM PST by
Jael
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