The Orlando Sentinel has a list of other issues that, like the falling foam, NASA has been ignoring, any one of which might destroy another Shuttle Orbiter.

“Some people still involved in the program confided to me that they have been awakened in the night with nightmarish pictures of the vehicle cartwheeling off the pad,” said Bill Heink, who retired in 2000 as site director of The Boeing Co. shuttle operations at Kennedy Space Center. “The potential is there.”