[DoughtyOne]

I appreciate what you are saying, but in this instance they had an event that was significant enough for them to discuss potential problems that it might create. What would it have hurt to take one pass for the hubble to focus in on that wing. I'm not asking this question after the shuttle landed safely. We lost a ship. There is the potential that they made a serious underestimate of the damage the materials hitting the wing might have crated. If they dismiss it now, it could happen again.

[WoofDog123]

"What would it have hurt to take one pass for the hubble to focus in on that wing. "

Can hubble focus on something THAT close, moving THAT fast relative to itself? Almost everything it images is literally a zillion times further away.