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Hubbard said after Monday’s test: “I think foam hitting the wing lead ing edge of the orbiter at 500 mph is the direct cause.” The board plans to release its final report by the end of this month. Much of the report “is going to deal with the other types of caus es, contributing causes and other elements of the orbiter program over the last 20 years,” Hubbard said. One month ago, another carbon shuttle wing panel — smaller and farther inboard — was cracked by the impact, along with an adjoining seal. This time, the entire 11 1/2-inch width of the foam chunk — rather than just a corner during previous testing — hit the wing, putting maximum stress on the suspect area. The five other previous tests in recent weeks involved fiberglass wing pieces taken from the shut tle prototype Enterprise, housed at the Smithsonian Institution. Those, too, were damaged. Hubbard said it is ques tionable whether the best set of cameras trained on the shuttle during liftoff would have detected such a large hole, if they had been in focus, and they were not. He declined to say whether spy satellites would have observed such damage, but he noted that it was a black hole in a black piece of rein forced carbon. During Columbia’s flight, shuttle managers rejected engineers’ request for spy satellite images to ascertain the extent of dam age to the left wing. Among the board’s pre liminary recommendations to NASA: improve launch photography, use take spy satellites to check out orbit ing spaceships, conduct bet ter testing of wing panels, and devise an inspection and repair plan for astro nauts in orbit. Monday’s test cost $3.4 million. Teens Continued from page 1 But he said he never saw Matthew Lovett teased to his face because he was intimidating — and he was sometimes armed with a bat. Oaklyn teenagers also say he also practiced martial arts and had com piled a list of his enemies since ele mentary school. Authorities would not confirm the existence of a list, but Camden County Prosecutor Vincent P. Sarubbi said three people believed to be intended victims were notified Sunday of the plot. He declined to identify them, but Oaklyn Police Chief Chris Ferrari indicated they were students. People who know the teen say Matthew Lovett not only liked the science fiction movie “The Matrix,” but also dressed the part, often wearing all-black clothing and slicking back his hair. He sometimes referred to himself as The Mystic, The One or Neo in homage to Keanu Reeves’ character in the “Matrix” films — high-tech thrillers where the real world is merely a facade for a darker, grim mer world where a computer hacker leads humanity in a revolt against the machines that have taken over the world. Lovett was also such player of role-playing that he and his friends called tki selves the Warriors of Freedom all# one of them. “He wouldn’t even Chris Brown, who month from Collingswood is School, as did the older Lovett.i was just by himself.” The three teens were arresttJ after attempting a carjacking! this Philadelphia suburb, anili ties said. They had several gi belonging to Matthew’s falki, including rifles, a shotgun, sevenl handguns, swords and 2,i rounds of ammunition. The father, Ron Lovett, issued: statement through a family metifc Monday, apologizing for behavior. “I’d like to apologize to and the people of Oaklyn for win my son has done,” Lovett said. '' like to ask everyone to say aprayti for Matthew. I hope he can receiv the counseling he needs.” All three were charged w offenses including conspiracy commit murder. 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