ABC News 24 television interviewed one of their own science reporters this morning
for some expert coverage of the last Shuttle flight and we were somewhat bemused
when he described the famous heat insulative silica tiles on the body of the Shuttle
as being made of "polystyrene foam" that "you could push your finger through".
What one assumes is that he is confused between the tiles on the Shuttle
and the spray on foam insulation used on the external tank (ET).
Either that or he was thinking of the 1/72 scale foam model of the Shuttle he
bought once as a souvenir at the Kennedy Space Center Gift Shop.
