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Report Confirms that Foam Damaged Wing of Space Shuttle Columbia.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, August, 2003
By Anthony Colarossi, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Aug. 27--HUNTSVILLE, Ala.--The Columbia report attributes the physical cause of the disaster to something no one at NASA ever thought could bring down a shuttle: foam insulation covering the spacecraft's external tank.
While much of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board's report focused on communication and culture problems at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the foam problems will have to be corrected before shuttles fly again.
Loss of the insulating foam from Columbia's bipod ramp area, where the shuttle's massive external tank mates with the orbiter, was initially discounted by NASA as the cause. Indeed, the report notes: "It...
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