[expatpat]

What on earth is this rambling about. Can you give a succinct summary of your "theory", so we can understand what you are talking about? (and what has you single-engine license got to do with it?)

[GovernmentShrinker]

Old model tank used on this mission. Hadn't been used for a long time (more recent missions used newer, lighter model). NASA current press kit misidentifies this mission's tank as being the newer model. Sonar5's direct communication with someone at Michoud confirmed it was actually the older model.

[Cold Heat]

He found the data that the tank was a old model with previous problems and connected the dots.

The only thing that I disagree with is the inference that NASA did not state which tank was used. Fortunately I heard them admit this during the initial briefing. The engineer stated that the older heavier tank was used. "One of two left in inventory", he said.

On the NASA site is the story of STS-87 and 86 which had insulation problems with this same tank in 1997.