[Fred Mertz]

But no one even knew that a piece of insulation from the external tank had hit the orbiter until a frame-by-frame review of videotape of the launching was undertaken the next day.

The NYT is parroting the NASA lines. Why am I not surprised?

[TLBSHOW]

It all goes back to the Don Nelson letter and plea. O'Reilly is going to force him to talk.