-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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-good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to the johnson space center for today s briefing. -lisa starke with abc news. when you realized that you had this debris that had struck the shuttle and you started your analysis, what was the discussion about trying to take a look either through satellites or these large telescopes that the military has and why was the decision made not to try that? -we certainly had that discussion. we believe that taking a picture , looking for tile damage, it does not show us the depth of tile that may have been shaved off. we cannot make a determination conclusively whether that represents a concern or not. - well, linda, reading through the transcripts, in hindsight were you sufficiently open to the idea that this was a really serious problem?
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locked it, and i just sobbed at my desk. the president s talking outside, and i was just sobbing, and sobbing, and sobbing. inside johnson space center, the internal conflict was building. -on the first day that we went in, there were people who received us very well, there were people who were not happy that we were here. -i was one of the first people to be interviewed and interrogated. i felt ok, i felt like, this is a good thing, this has to happen. i hope they re thorough. -i think the folks that were probably less interested in our help were more at the management level in nasa. in some cases, we re asking for data, and then they d be like, i can t give you that information right now, you re gonna have to go up through a very formal nasa chain of command to be approved. -i call it the managers club.
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Good afternoon, everybody, and welcome to the Johnson Space Center for todays briefing. Lisa starke with abc news. When you realized that you had this debris that had struck the shuttle and you started your analysis, what was the discussion about trying to take a look either through satellites or these large telescopes that the military has and why was the decision made not to try that . We certainly had that discussion. We believe that taking a picture , looking for tile damage, it does not show us the depth of tile that may have been shaved off. We cannot make a determination conclusively whether that represents a concern or not. Well, linda, reading through the transcripts,
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