NASA Still Considering Foam Launch Damage

Space.com ^ | 2/6/03 | Marcia Dunn

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

...If NASA was "jumping" away from the foam theory, then why would it be making plans to test foam impacts on the wing?

These tests have already been done.
In 1999, the Southwest Research Institute ran tests by firing 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. Why?

[John Jamieson]

You and what 50,000 others?

Do you have the slightest bit of technical background (education, experience) to support your claims?

[Jael]

So who's a tinfoiler in your judgment?