Wednesday, July 27, 2005; Posted: 6:45 p.m. EDT NASA grounds the space shuttle program while engineers determine the effects of debris falling from Discovery during blastoff.
This stuff was probably happening on every launch, only now they have the cameras to see it. I hope the aren’t over-reactionary but the thing needs to be safe. It was a flawed design from the get go, don’t they know you are supposed to put capsules/shuttles on top of the rockets not straped to them?!