[snopercod]

there are radioactive pieces with the shuttle

Maybe in some lab experiment, but not on the shuttle (with the exception of the crew module smoke detectors, which are no more dangerous than the ones in everybody's homes.)

[mewzilla]

Did anyone just catch FOX & friends a minute ago? Steve Doocy said that when John Glenn went up on his trip that NASA had been worried about damage and had found a way to check out the underside of the shuttle, with satellite photog I think. Did I hear that correctly? And if they could do it for Glenn's mission, why not for this one? Especially since that chunk of SOFI, according to Doocy, was about 15' square.