The Crazy Rants of Samantha Burns

Just as in the Columbia flight, which lost 7 astronauts in 2003, the Discovery flight was launched July 26, 2005 and instantly lost a pieces of foam and gained tile damage upon take off. You'd think that the problem would have been fixed after the tragedy of the Columbia expedition, but for some reason they ran into an identical error. Fortunately for the 7 astronauts inside the Discovery, the foam debris did not hit the wing like it did with Columbia, which means that there is no visible extensive damage caused and hopefully the 12 day flight will end positively. More on the Debris Issue

Update: See Discovery.