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Apart from Rove, the day's news agenda consisted mostly of follow-ups from last week's mishaps. ABC and CBS both covered potential problems with NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour, whose underbelly was gouged by an icy chunk of foam upon liftoff--damage similar to that which sealed Columbia's fate upon reentry in 2003. CBS' Kelly Cobiella reported that the fragment punched "a cone-shaped hole three inches long and about an inch deep, almost to the orbiter's aluminum skin." However, Columbia's damage was on the wing, which gets much hotter upon reentry than the belly. Still, that means that "three of the four past Shuttle missions have been plagued by breakaway foam," counted ABC's Mike von Fremd. "Engineers pored over computer models" to work out whether a spacewalk repair would be worth the effort.
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