NASA has egg in its face after it was learned that foam broke off from the shuttle Discovery after it blasted out of Cape Canaveral a few days ago. Some of the foam may have hit the wing and underbelly of the shuttle in a spooky reminder of the doomed Columbia mission from two years ago.
Understandably, the shuttle crew is nervous. According to a story in the press, the shuttle commander said that "...shuttle's crew had been surprised and disappointed to find that NASA had not solved the foam debris problem that caused the Columbia disaster." Here's that story.
As well they should be. NASA sends these astronauts into space with assurances that everything was hunkey-dorey and then they are told that the problem wasn't fixed and that foam hit the shuttle and caused some damage. What are they to think?
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