Board 1983 News Today

-for the second time in nasas history, a space shuttle has been lost along with its entire crew. once again, we are asking ourselves, how could this have happened? -do you have any idea how big that piece of foam was that came off? -wed heard some reports that during launch there had been some concerns that some debris hit the wing. is that true and is that any cause of concern and that could have caused todays problems? -it is true. it was judged that, erm , that event did not represe...

That there were over a half a dozen occurrences of foam strikes recorded. so, we turned that in into the investigation board. -1983 was the first bipod ramp foam loss. 1990, 1992, 92 again, 1994. as well as those bigger pieces, we saw small pieces of foam fall away all the time. what we call "popcorning". when popcorn pops, it pops up and comes out and so thats what we call it, popcorning. they werent very big so youre not talking about much damage to the tiles. and so, it had become the norm at...

I was shocked to find that there were over a half a dozen occurrences of foam strikes recorded. So, we turned that in into the investigation board. 1983 was the first bipod ramp foam loss. 1990, 1992, 92 again, 1994. As well as those bigger pieces, we saw small pieces of foam fall away all the time. What we call popcorning. When popcorn pops, it pops up and comes out and so thats what we call it, popcorning. They werent very big so youre not talking about much damage to the tiles. And so, it had...