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♪ ♪ ♪ -my wife, laurel, was on the shuttle. she was a scientist primarily involved with life sciences. one day during the mission, i was reviewing the notes, and then heres this foam issue. during launch, a large piece of foam had come off the external tank and impacted the left wing. me and my colleague had this discussion of, "hey, you can use a family conference to talk to laurel and find out what she knew." -oh! -you got to remember the hat youre wearing is your flight-surgeo...

My primary thing is getting the spacecraft up on to orbit and getting it back down safely. that morning, the atmosphere -- it was upbeat. theres no issues. we work with the crew to go through system checkouts. -we got all of our systems ready, all the sensors ready, and we prepared for the de-orbit preparation, which is you convert the space shuttle from a spacecraft to a re-entry vehicle. everything was proceeding normally that day. -the big thing that i remember really paying attention to shor...

But i had this Wing Concern because of the impact. So i said, i will go in. I realized that most of those people at those consoles they dont know anything thats been going on for two weeks. Theyve been looking at the condition of this system, this system, but they dont know any other history. I was the lead Entry Ground Controller for the mission. My primary thing is getting the Spacecraft Up on to orbit and getting it back down safely. That morning, the atmosphere it was upbeat. Theres no issue...