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To: Bob Mohebbi who wrote (65115)	2/2/2003 12:03:46 PM
From: James F. Hopkins	Read Replies (2) of 209892

(OT) Shuttle ; I'm Sad to, and I need to collect my thoughts and sort through my feelings before I get more into it. -- The way the news media is handling this tends to make me angry. They act like such experts, but most of them don't know jackshit. --- I saw one NASA high up talking about the "foam" hitting the wing on Launch, and discounting it. 1 They seem to insist it was foam, but I know they can't tell that for sure, (it could have been ice.) 2 He said "think of driving down the freeway at 70mph and a foam cooler blew out of a pickup in front of you and hit your car , would you be worried about serious damage " He didn't say 2000mph , yet that was likely the speed of the Shuttle at the time.. It reaches over 3000mph before those tanks drop off. --- But any way would you want to run some so called harmless foam at 2000mph..I sure wouldn't advise it. and again they don't KNOW it was not ice. -- Would the crew have felt it ? Not likely because at that stage of acceleration there is extreme buffeting. Jim

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