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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?

[Terriergal]

Dunno... but if there was nothing to be done about it...?