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A presidential commission followed the Challenger disaster and that commission issued recommendations to make space travel safer, but it missed a major issue that had been happening on takes off for almost as long as the shuttle had been flying. Large chunks of foam would flake off and strike the tiles protecting the shuttle and its crew from extreme heat during reentry. During the launch of Columbia for STS-107, a tile was damaged so badly that it failed on reentry and that shuttle was lost, along with her seven-member crew, over Texas on February 1, 2003. Not long after that, it was announced that the shuttle would be retired, but it was also to be replaced with the next generation of spaceship. It never was... THANKS OBAMA! ;-)

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