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Title: Shuttle update
Post by: davidpt40 on February 03, 2003, 10:44:44 AM

CAPE CANAVERAL, Feb. 3 —  Two days before the Columbia disaster, a NASA engineering team sent an internal memo calculating a high probability that launch debris had caused a gash 7½ by 30 inches on the shuttle’s left wing, NBC’s Jay Barbree reported Monday. NASA engineers have talked of a heat spike and drag on the left wing, suggesting a potential problem with the thermal tiles there. But NASA’s chief told NBC News on Monday that the tiles are just one of many variables being investigated.