[Yo-Yo]

They recovered enough of the Challenger orbiter to pretty much reconstruct it.

Physical evidence from a 165,000 lb (when empty) Space Shuttle and two 185,000 lb (empty) SRBs is very different from finding a memory chip from a 2,000 lb (including solar array and batteries) spy package.

And Challenger exploded at 46,000 ft.

[ought-six]

“Physical evidence from a 165,000 lb (when empty) Space Shuttle and two 185,000 lb (empty) SRBs is very different from finding a memory chip from a 2,000 lb (including solar array and batteries) spy package.”

Oh, for God’s sake. We can never recover everything because some stuff disintegrated or is simply gone and not recoverable. But we can still recover enough stuff that can tell us a lot about the system China sent over.

You’re being ridiculous, which I suspect is your normal default mode.