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E-mails Alerted NASA Manager to Possible Damage to Shuttle Columbia.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, May, 2003
By Robyn Suriano, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
May 6--HOUSTON--The NASA official in charge of the team that oversaw Columbia in orbit was warned in e-mails 10 days before the shuttle disintegrated that foam debris from the fuel tank could cause serious damage, according to e-mails released Monday.
Linda Ham, who chaired the mission-management team for Columbia's flight, asked two engineers in a Jan. 22 e-mail whether the density of the foam was so lightweight that it posed "no 'safety of flight' damage." At that time, NASA was studying whether a 2-pound chunk of foam that hit Columbia's left wing during liftoff could have seriously damaged the ship.
Both engineers replied later that same day that...
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