[Ramtek57]

They assumed everything was ok, and you see what happened.
They thought, the tiles were OK. They thought it was too dangerous to do a space walk to check out the damage.
They are crawfishing right now. Trying not to take the blame, trying to cover up what they really should have done. They had 16 days up there, they should have spacewalked around the shuttle to check for damage. Watch, when they improve there safety procedures, and there is damage to the spacecraft, they will take a space walk to check it out. Then it will be time to thing about contingencies, like how to get them home. Unlike the events that they call contingencies now, A DISASTER!

[Judith Anne]

Sorry, I've been listening carefully. No crawfishing that I've seen.

[don-o]

. They had 16 days up there, they should have spacewalked around the shuttle to check for damage

And then...?

Buy a clue.

Repair was not an option.

[William McKinley]

Spacewalks are not the piece of cake they appear to be in Bruce Willis movies. I find it completely plausible that a space walk would probably cause more damage to the tiles than any damage they would have been preparing.

[fooman]

I concur. They could leave an astronaught lifeboat in the shuttle's orbit or have ruskie craft ready to launch to bail our sorry asses out!

[sonofatpatcher2]

Re: They are crawfishing right now. Trying not to take the blame, trying to cover up what they really should have done. They had 16 days up there, they should have spacewalked around the shuttle to check for damage. Watch, when they improve there safety procedures, and there is damage to the spacecraft, they will take a space walk to check it out. Then it will be time to thing about contingencies, like how to get them home. Unlike the events that they call contingencies now, A DISASTER!

Tell me, do you write for the New York Times or do you report for CNN? Must be one or the other as you have become judge, jury and executioner.

Why even watch this? You have already made up your mind.

[WoofDog123]

"they should have spacewalked around the shuttle to check for damage"

Repair was not an option here.

IF the space-hab was jettisonable, then that is the ONLY thing I can think of that MIGHT have helped if this is a tile issue. And it might not have....did they even have the equipment on board for a spacewalk?