[isthisnickcool]

Posted on Tue, Feb. 04, 2003

FOAM HAS PLAGUED NASA FOR 5 YEARS
By Curtis Morgan, Manny Garcia and Ronnie Greene
Knight Ridder


I read the thing. I found nothing that says that NASA is withholding test results. Since you posted this with a title that is not accurate maybe you can point out where the article says "NASA withholding results". I don't see it.

[fooman]

Reposting the relevant segment from the article... In 1999, the Southwest Research Institute, a non-profit laboratory in San Antonio, Texas, fired insulating foam fragments from a compressed-gas gun into thermal tiles and recorded the results with digital cameras. After the Columbia crash, NASA asked the institute not to release those results. The space agency also has tested the foam in wind tunnels and aboard a research jet.

[Bob]

I read the thing. I found nothing that says that NASA is withholding test results. Since you posted this with a title that is not accurate maybe you can point out where the article says "NASA withholding results". I don't see it.

From a previous post:

In 1999, the Southwest Research Institute, a non-profit laboratory in San Antonio, Texas, fired insulating foam fragments from a compressed-gas gun into thermal tiles and recorded the results with digital cameras. After the Columbia crash, NASA asked the institute not to release those results.

Technically speaking, NASA isn't withholding test results; the institute is withholding test results (because NASA asked them to).