Foam Problem 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...

I only learned later that there really were people outside of our team that were trying to do something about it. -i had no idea what was happening because there was no communication. im not in the loop, im not in the know, nobodys talking to each other, so nobody knows whats going on. -the problem that we had in nasa culturally at the time was people would not speak up with their concerns. it was the most anti-dissenting opinion place that i know of. people were scared silly to speak up. -nasa ...

The system is not designed for good communication. But thats not an excuse, because this Foam Problem was a not a new problem. It was ignored right up until an opportunity to intervene presented itself, and then that opportunity to get a Spy Satellite to take a look was dismissed. To sort of stick to your guns of convincing yourself that its ok. It just made matters worse. Ii could i could only deal with the data that was presented to me. The whole situation was a case of people doing their jobs...