"Shuttle prepares to deliver Japanese lab to space station"
".... NASA safety officials were reviewing video and photographs of the launch, but it appeared there was only one significant incident of insulating foam coming off the giant fuel tank that the shuttle is strapped to like a bull-rider.
The chunk of foam came off at about 83 seconds into the launch, when atmospheric forces are near their maximum.
Any foam coming off the tank then would be accelerated to potentially damaging speeds.
Possible foam strikes to the craft became a critical safety issue after the shuttle Columbia was lost in 2003, after a piece of insulating foam hit the left wing during launch, tearing a hole in it...."
The Zionist-controlled MSM never fails to reiterate lost Zionist lives in Palestine!
WTF?
Those U.S. astronauts not important enough for a mention, huh?
At least the number, if not names!
By the by, this launch could very well be a military mission to gather space readings regarding Iran.
Remember, Columbia had an Israel general aboard it and was a mere month before the Iraq attack.
You don't believe all this cover story bullshit, do you?
Could we be BOMBING IRAN within a MONTH, readers?