NASA has published the investigation report of the Columbia accident. It is worth taking a look at. It is a 16 meg download though, in case that is a problem.
Lamentations on Chemistry
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NASA has published the investigation report of the Columbia accident. It is worth taking a look at. It is a 16 meg download though, in case that is a problem.
Lamentations on Chemistry 
Isn’t it your job to read it for us and spur debate?
My dear fellow, I would not want to deprive you of the beautiful graphics, extensive timeline, and deft compilation of facts thereto appertaining.
If you have ever done an accident investigation, you’ll appreciate the quality of this work.
So, no top ten laments of 2008? Or was it as uneventful for you as it was for me? (Aside from the whole collapse of the economy thingy.)
I suppose there’s still time for something staggeringly great to happen to me.
Add some carbon, glass, Zylon, Spectra, Kevlar… fiber to the top layer of blown foam and bloody stop the whining. Does your fiberglas bathroom vanity spall of pieces when you fart?
von Braun do the Saturn 5 using slide rules. Folks who cannot make the Ares work using NASA’s 10,240-processor Columbia supercomputer want to know how.
Aircraft are specified to withstand forces along certain directions. If nobody anticipates that significant impact events will happen on the leading edge of the wing, then they will not be built to withstand them.
I think that the V^2 part of KE=(mV^2)/2 was not entirely appreciated when the foam shedding first became apparent.