could be the space satellite also known as Michael Jackson

Yeah, I saw it on replay. Looked like three or four big chunks of foam.

Just watching the NASA presser on cnn.com, and they don't seem too concerned, as of yet.

Good Christ, what an embarrassment NASA is. :shake:

Yeah, hopefully the pieces of debris were too small to cause any damage, but they did hit the tiles...

:spock:

The shuttle should never have been designed the way it is. At the very least, ice will always fall of launch vehicles. Of course, prior to the shuttle, all the humans were on the pointy-end, not strapped to the side of the tank with all the crap falling off it.

Damn. Damn, damn, damn.

FAX

After Columbia, I'm positive that they've engineered some major improvements into the whole debris strike issue.

FYP

Actually, they carry a tile repair kit on board now. Of course it's never been tried before.

Actually, it has been insulating foam falling off of the main tank that has caused disaster in the past...not ice...A problem that only began after NASA had to change the glue used to attach the foam because some left-wing nut jobs started complaining that the glue they had been using was not environmentally friendly...

A tile repair kit?

FAX

Well, but I'm also sure that tile technology has improved since then.

I'm sorry, but they've been launching these goddamn things for nearly 30 years, you'd think at some point they'd work the bugs out.

No wonder we've never gone back to the moon. I wouldn't trust these ****ers to get me safely to Georgia.