before we schedule the next launch." -in other words, again, they were thinking it was more of a turnaround issue. and so, it wasn't preventing shuttle flights from going forward. -the pressure on the management team to stay on schedule and the concept of, "it's just foam" is leading the charge through all of this. -so, it wasn't like they weren't talking about issues at all, but there certainly was a big focus on the -- on the schedule. -here's an e-mail, it's tuesday january 21st, this was sent six days into the columbia mission. this is a private exchange between linda ham and ron dittemore, two of the top managers in the program. "the rationale for flight for the sts-112 loss of foam

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