shuttle bother

reports of damage to Endeavour on launch
small loss of tile on underside and possible ice impact on wing

worrying, but too early to tell if it is a serious issue

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Reason 10,000 to ground the shuttles for good.

Dang. Last night I wrote a long detailed comment on how the Shuttle tile problem was handled in a more and more haphazard way while I worked on the Shuttle for Rockwell. Then the PC crashed, and it's lost.

But we have good odds of another Shuttle disaster in the remaining flights. Again, the managers executing the inteentional Fraud will not be jailed for negligent manslaughter, as they should have been for Challenger and Columbia.

I still have 6,000 pages of "pearl harbor files" that the Columbia Accident Investigation Board and NASA IG could not pry loose from my former attorney, who has 2 legal malpractice cases against him.

It's all MUCH worse than the public knows.

I couldn't help writing about how Cook's Endeavour suffered a hole in her belly from a close encounter with the Barrier Reef. That should have showed the value of making repairs in situ.