Кто-нибудь из РИА-Новости не правильно слышал--как я слышала Герстенмайер сказал что они видели
5 кусков пены, не 25. Большая разница!
согласно Aviation Week: "At a post-launch press conference Gerstenmaier and Leroy Cain, chairman of the STS-124 Mission Management Team, said a first look at the ground-based video and video broadcast real time from Discovery during ascent revealed five pieces of foam separated from the external tank, with some of them hitting the orbiter. However, all observed foam releases came after the 2 minutes, 15-second mark in the ascent, when the atmosphere becomes so thin that it can't slam loose foam into the orbiter's delicate thermal protection system with enough force to cause the kind of damage that doomed the shuttle Columbia."
