To: csvset
Isn't it true, that the shuttle bay has a boom, that can be equiped with a camera? I find it hard to beleive that NASA engineers would have such a cavalier attitude about the damage done to the left wing at lift off. Seems to me they simply crossed their fingers and hoped for the best.
To: BOOTSTICK
No arm on this flight. It might have been able to see the bottom side, but I kinda doubt it.
To: BOOTSTICK
Here's my idea for checking out the tile situation: the Hubble telescope -- turn it around and point it down for a look see. The gotcha problem: Hubble was never designed to follow objects traveling at that speed. I suspect that getting ground 'scopes to do so might be more possible -- but difficult.
Still -- why not investigate and try. *sigh*
189 posted on
02/01/2003 7:05:25 PM PST by
alancarp
(hindsight is 20/20, but useless at a funeral)
To: BOOTSTICK
The prudent thing to have done would have been to check it out to rule it out.
A little neglect may breed great mischief. For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
203 posted on
02/01/2003 7:22:07 PM PST by
csvset
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