[BOOTSTICK]

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.

[John Jamieson]

No arm on this flight. It might have been able to see the bottom side, but I kinda doubt it.

[alancarp]

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*

[csvset]

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.”