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-stop. thank you. -if a main engine were to explode, that would destroy the vehicle, itd be out of control, wed lose the vehicle and the crew. its too dangerous to fly any shuttle until we get a handle on this. it grounded the entire fleet, including columbia. -it was, like, delayed and delayed and delayed. [ breathes deeply ] youre kind of glad that theyre dealing with whatever the issue is, and youre hoping that everythings okay. and, you know, it makes it a little bit more nerve-wracking. ♪...

But in the end, what we did not know was the condition of the vehicle post-strike. ♪ -returning from space, a craft that is going 17,500 miles an hour heats up gases, and very hot gases become something we call plasma. the shuttle is enveloped in this inferno, and its kind of beautiful. but obviously you want to be protected from it. -well, they came to the conclusion that the best way to deal with that was to arrange a system of tiles to cover the shuttle. -all of the black here shown is all ...

-there are about 31,000 of them all together, and we hope those tiles will stay on when the orbiter comes back into the atmosphere, because otherwise the craft itself could be damaged. -during the development of the space shuttle in the 1970s, there was quite an effort to develop a way to repair damaged tiles on orbit. it was a huge effort... and it was an utter failure. they could not develop anything, and that was one of the "accepted risks" of flying in space. ♪ -okay. good morning. were re...

And thats hard to do. ♪ -each week there was a new trailer load of debris showed up, came right in this hangar through those doors, and it would be catalogued and then put out on the floor. i want to know what the debris is telling us, i want to know what the aerodynamics are telling us, and i want to know what the sensors are telling us. you follow the debris, whats it telling you? ♪ and if you follow the logic, you begin to see pieces that are telling you a story. as we were progressing th...

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...

All of that data pointed to a problem at rcc panel 8. something very different happened in this location on the orbiter. and so, lets go see if we can understand what that was. -ok, so, as the vehicle is entering the atmosphere, these black tiles are protecting the structure, the aluminium of the vehicle, in high-heat areas. and the grey is the wing leading edge reinforced carbon-carbon, rcc panels. those protect the vehicle from the highest level of heat, those 3,000 degree temperatures, so tha...

No one was gonna go public and say, "we know what didnt happen." -you get that shot right there? thats a nasa official. hes holding a piece of foam, which he is now saying could not have had enough impact cause its too light to have damaged those tiles that weve been talking about. -i knew ron. i had respect for ron. ron was linda hams boss and a good manager. but whats always the first step in grief? denial. -i called ron and i said, "ron, let me just remind you, ok? we had a clear understandin...

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