STS-121 Launch trouble

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(Bob Haller) wrote:

*From:* "Bob Haller"
*Date:* 3 Jul 2006 15:51:13 -0700

Sorry the whole idea is the foam shouldnt (sic) fall off espically
(sic) in the quiet of sitting on the pad...

Who's idea is that? It may be yours, but it isn't reality and it isn't
NASA's. Why do you think they have ice team inspections? It is because
these things can and do happen. Ice forms, foam sheds.

If life was different and there was an entirely different space vehicle
available, then you might be right. As is it, you are not.

Unless someone carelessely (sic) knocked it off, which wasnt (sic)
the case

Did you listen to the post-MMT briefing?

These foam failures of cracks and pieces falling off are a bad sign...

To you, yes, but that is because of the way you look at things.
You would have no more space flights until an entirely new vehicle which
was 100% safe was designed. Which probably means no more space flights
ever.

Bits of foam fall off the shuttle all the time. Especially if you have
to keep tanking and de-tanking. If this were the pre-Apollo 12 days,
they would have probably launched on Saturday through any possible
lightning and the opportunity for tanking/detanking flexing to allow ice
to form wouldn't have happened. As it is they waited to be safer and
this problem cropped up. It is, according to those who know, minor and
being looked it.

you dont (sic) fly when you dont (sic) understand a problem.

You agree, for once, with NASA then. They aren't flying until they
understand the problem, which they do. But better than that, it would
seem that they aren't flying until they understand the answer. You
should be congratulating them rather than the reverse.

Interestingly though, if you take your analysis down to the level which
I suspect you would take it, you would never fly in an aircraft. We
don't understand why aircraft fly.

Malcolm B