Columbia: The Foam Strike NASA Ignored Seven Times

🚀 Seven warnings. Seven times foam struck Columbia's tiles. Seven times NASA called it acceptable. On the eighth mission, they were wrong. 💔

On February 1, 2003, all 7 crew members of STS-107 died when superheated plasma tore through a hole in Columbia's wing during re-entry — a hole punched by a 1.67-lb chunk of foam at launch. NASA had the chance to image the damage from orbit. They chose not to.

The FailurePoint wasn't foam physics. It was **normalization of deviance** — the slow, institutional drift where repeated near-misses stop feeling dangerous.

The same pattern that doomed Challenger in 1986 killed Columbia in 2003. NASA had 17 years and still didn't fix the culture.

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