That's what they said about Apollo 13, and they proved themselves wrong.
If the Columbia broke apart because of a heat-shield problem, then a heat-shield problem would have doomed Apollo 13 as well. In other words, simply because you have two "incidents" that occur in space, that does not make them related.
258 posted on 02/04/2003 10:59:08 AM PST by 1rudeboy