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To: sea_urchin who wrote (17305)	2/23/2003 3:53:35 PM
From: sea_urchin	Respond to of 81237

Likewise.................. rense.com >>>In a Feb. 5 e-mail, NASA engineer Dennis Bushnell said ice damage from the 150-foot-tall external fuel tanks has long afflicted the left side of space-bound shuttles, but nothing was done about it. "We (the agency) should have done more analysis of this whole situation/taken it more seriously as well as repositioned that tank dump line to minimize ice impingement," he wrote. Another NASA engineer, Daniel Mazanek, wrote that a study of video taken during launch indicated that Columbia was struck three times by debris that was most likely ice. The impact, he said, "would be the equivalent of a 500 pound safe hitting the wing at 365 miles per hour." <<<