-for the second time in nasa s history, a space shuttle has been lost along with its entire crew. once again, we are asking ourselves, how could this have happened? -do you have any idea how big that piece of foam was that came off? -we d heard some reports that during launch there had been some concerns that some debris hit the wing. is that true and is that any cause of concern and that could have caused today s problems? -it is true. it was judged that, erm , that event did not represent a safety concern. -this happened under my watch, but i didn t have the answers. in every public forum i m gonna have to be in, how am i gonna explain this to anybody? at this time, we have no indication that the mishap was caused by anything or anyone on the ground. -nasa never wants to look stupid. nasa wants to be the agency with the answers. -my thoughts are on what we missed, what i missed to allow this to happen. -but if you overlook something, it will come to bite you one day or anot
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and they identified very early on and got images early on and everything went about perfectly, just maybe there could have been a rescue mission. but it s questionable whether you could get the other orbiter, which would have been atlantis in this case, processed and out to the pad in time without putting that crew at serious risk. we would have had to pull together this huge effort in the eleventh hour to figure out how to fly one shuttle next to the other to conduct an operation that you d never trained or prepared for. it was not in the art of the possible given what we knew. -the one tool we could have tried to look at was changing the way entry is done, trying to change how it enters the atmosphere. you can change the angle of attack coming in so you can lessen the heat in certain areas
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case closed. there s no denying it. you know, there was there was foam falling from day one. they should have had that test on day two. -this was a known failure. but i think the failure to imagine being wrong, the failure to imagine the consequences of failure were catastrophic. and i think it s this whole notion of the failure to imagine failure. -nasa s trying to move forward after tuesday s blistering report, blaming it for failing to prevent the shuttle columbia tragedy. -nasa stands accused of complacency of a flawed safety culture of major management failures. technical failures, but also about a human failure. -nasa had conflicting goals of cost,
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who didn t believe that foam could break reinforced carbon-carbon. -we re here at southwest research institute in san antonio, texas, to conduct a test to show whether foam could create a hole big enough to destroy the vehicle. -everything came down to whether or not the foam shot was gonna break an rcc panel. but if our investigative analysis is wrong, then what? -five, four, three, two, one. -whoa! [ indistinct chatter ] -ok. foam will break reinforced carbon-carbon. -i mean, there was no doubt at that point, right?
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