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-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...

-the pressure on the management team to stay on schedule and the concept of, "its just foam" is leading the charge through all of this. -so, it wasnt like they werent talking about issues at all, but there certainly was a big focus on the -- on the schedule. -heres an e-mail, its 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 l...

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Was lousy. The rationale states, we havent changed anything, we havent experienced any safety of Flight Damage in 112 flights. the Concluding Sentence the rationale was lousy then and it still is. What i take that to mean is that Linda Ham is raising a concern, but they appear to rely on the fact that previous flights which had suffered this foam loss, had returned safely. In other words, weve gotten away with this. This is a failure to learn from past similar events, simply because those flight...