What is this falling off during last shuttle launch?

flobadob | 14:15 Sat 26th Feb 2011 | Science

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During this video of the recent shuttle launch something flies off the shuttle when it is way up at around 5.48 of the video. I put a link at around the time but don't know will it work. What is it that flies off and was it dangerous?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzi1XohLlEc&feature=player_detailpage#t=348s

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NazNomad

Looks like a tile, or part of one ....

boxtops

Yeah, it looks like a couple of the covering tiles that you can see at top right on the picture.

NazNomad

We we're almost right ...

"A large piece of foam had fallen away from an external fuel tank after Thursday's launch, which appeared to then hit the shuttle's thermal tiles.

But the incident occurred four minutes into the flight — a time, NASA analysts say, that presents far less danger than in the first moments after launch. The foam reportedly did no damage to the tiles."

http://www.npr.org/bl...ct-shuttle-for-damage

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