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NASA Discounted Damage to Shuttle Tiles

SPACE CENTER, Houston - While Columbia was still in orbit, NASA's "best and brightest" minds analyzed the potential damage done to its thermal tiles by a piece of debris during liftoff and concluded that the flight was in no danger, agency officials said Monday.

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The shuttle broke up 39 miles over Texas and fell to Earth just as it was experiencing maximum re-entry heat of 3,000 degrees. All seven astronauts aboard perished.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=624&ncid=716&e=1&u=/ap/20030203/ap_on_sc/shuttle_investigation

Looks like they were way wrong again.

703 posted on 02/03/2003 2:51:23 PM PST by TLBSHOW (God Speed as Angels trending upward dare to fly Tribute to the Risk Takers)

I was thumbing through the "T"s in the dictionary and.......well....this turned up.

has everyone forgotten the hand wringing over the damage during chuck yeagers flight? they were wrong... this time some folks were right. But if they are so clever, then they should be able to explain exactly what happened. not just say "oh yeah, I was right, SOMETHING happened"