This guy isn't the first to talk about sending up a rescue shuttle. It could have been done. The week turn around time would have made the operation horribly risky, but look at the alternative. The internal made it pretty clear that they knew what they could be dealing with. Which also makes me wonder why they chose not to get any pics, which they could have done. Instead they chose to take a chance with a ship that had been hit with a 15 sq ft chunk of foam weighing over a hundred pounds, that had probably done some serious damage. Yup, makes perfect sense to me.
Why didn't Dittemore dislcose the existence of the memo? Anyone else like to know?