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the crew inspected the damage using a camera on the remote manipulator system. The debris strike had removed a tile; the exposed orbiter skin was a reinforced section, and a burn-through might have occurred had the damage been in a different location. After that mission, the NASA Program Requirements Control Board designated the issue as an in-flight anomaly, which was later corrected with the planned improvement for the SRB ablator. The Columbia Investigative Review Board noted the difference

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