[Terriergal]

"We do not have the technical ability to repair tiles. This mission did not have the space arm, nor do we have the technical ability to walk outside the shit and repair tiles."

THAT WAS NOT THE QUESTION. The question was, did Nasa consider a space-walk TO EXAMINE THE LEFT WING. His answer did not directly address the question.

The answer in case you didn't get the implication sure seems to me to be "YES but we were not equipped."

[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

Terriergal writes
"""The answer in case you didn't get the implication sure seems to me to be "YES but we were not equipped."""

I didn't get that feeling from his responses. It sounds to me like they stopped short of getting actual VISUAL confirmation of their theorizing that the launch problem didn't cause damage.

Why on earth wouldn't they get visual confirmation?