Yes. They were at the peak stress on the shuttle.
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From: Pierce Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Jerry Durand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,Sean Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ERPS] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [SAT-L] shuttle disaster] Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 10:12:14 -0800 At 09:35 AM 2/1/2003 -0800, Jerry Durand wrote:At 09:20 AM 2/1/2003, you wrote:Was that meant for the list? It only went to me. I have read that a piece of insulating foam broke off of the external tank and is believed to have struck the left wing. Damage to the TPS could have resulted in a burn-through as well. The engineers at NASA didn't seem to think it would be a problem and they flew their normal reentry trajectory. So I guess now we have two possibilities.
That was meant for the list, I keep forgetting that the ERPS list doesn't have the right headers on it.
I heard about the insulation, too. But, apparently they lost contact with the shuttle at 9am right when those power units were turned on. I believe they are turned on before the insulation would matter.
If they were at 200,000 feet, wouldn't that be at the tail of the blackout period, or shortly afterwards?
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