[ContemptofCourt]

I did not see the press conference, so I do not know the context of the question asked, but they may be stating the truth....STS-27 also suffered severe tile damage, which they postulated occured on liftoff...however, they could not confirm this.

So it depends on whether the question was if something hit the tiles on liftoff or if there have been instances of foam coming off the ET.

[Sonar5]

Good find. Thank You.

I have not looked at all the missions, since I have been responding here and on a couple other places.

STS-27 ET-23 Atlantis 12/2/1988 LWT

Michoud states:
Atlantis Sustained Extensive Tile Damage on Liftoff Primarily due to debris from the solid rocket boosters.

Unsure if that inludes ET, since an ET is not a booster. But that is another one where they mentioned debris.

That is Now SIX Missions.

I'll be back, I'm going to read all of them.

Regards,
Joe