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Expert Claims NASA, Boeing Study of Damage to Shuttle Tiles Was 'Optimistic'.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2003
The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Feb. 6--The co-author of a 1990 NASA study on the vulnerability of the space shuttle's heat-resistant tiles said Wednesday that she thought the agency's judgment that Columbia could return home safely despite potentially serious damage to its tiles was "optimistic."
A hastily done computer simulation and analysis by The Boeing Co., ordered by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration after a suitcase-sized chunk of foam insulation slammed into tiles on Columbia's belly during its Jan. 16 liftoff, had concluded that a worst-case damage scenario would still allow "safe return . . . even with significant tile damage."
But M. Elisabeth Pate-Cornell, chairwoman of...
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