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Pastimes : Shuttle Columbia STS-107
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To: James F. Hopkins who wrote (112)2/3/2003 5:10:32 PM
From: Yogizuna  Read Replies (1) of 627
 
Yes, at 2,000 miles per hour, a piece of relatively harmless foam could cause some very serious damage. It probably did not hit Columbia's left wing at that speed, but since the heat tiles that protect the Space Shuttle on reentry are relatively fragile, even if the material striking the wing was in fact "foam" and not ice, it still could have caused some damage in my opinion, perhaps just enough to tip the scales enough to help cause the terrible disaster.
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