> we nearly lost her in July of 2005 > After 26 months of work, nobody knew how to address that little statement. Of course we had fixed everything. What els

> we nearly lost her in July of 2005 > After 26 months of work, nobody knew how to address that little statement. Of course we had fixed everything. What else could there be? What else could we do? We were exhausted with study, test, redesign. We decided to fly. !!! Two years after Columbia they almost lost Discovery?? Two years after they lost Challenger they almost lost Atlantis: > When Gibson saw the damage he thought to himself, "We are going to die"; he and others did not believe that the shuttle would survive reentry. [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-27#Tile_damage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-27#Tile_damage