Each of the samples he’d glued to the T-38s had been torn off the aircraft in flight, disintegrating somewhere in the sky over Texas. Moser knew immediately that there was no way the tiles would survive the journey to space.
115. These tiles are such a boondoggle, had to be individually manufctured, set by hand, and started disintegrating in first tests.
116. New guys immediately upgraded to get them working on shuttle procedures for young-crippen.
119. "Get this thing in space or we're gonna lose the program"
121. Carter facing many crisis, shuttle also a target, why no remote launch capability?
123. Reagan, ready to launch.
