Columbia Final Mission
Wayne Hale, Deputy Shuttle Manager
Wrote:
"Last year we dropped the torch through our complacency, our arrogance, self assurance, sheer stupidity and through our continuing attempt to please everyone". "Seven of our friends and colleagues paid the ultimate price for our failure. Yet the nation is giving us another chanceĀ
..We must not Fail"
More then three years ago the Space Shuttle Columbia went down in flames, due to the damage caused but not limited to, a piece of insulating foam that broke off the external tank and struck the wing's leading edge. The foam struck with enough force to create an opening in the wing which allowed hot plasma to enter during reentry. No one though that foam could cause this much damage since nothing like this had resulted from previous instances where the foam had come off.
In the beginning NASA was faced with a tight budget given to them by the government. This budget was large enough to build a state of the......
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