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To: James F. Hopkins who wrote (244)	2/3/2003 7:29:59 PM
From: ownstock	Read Replies (2) of 627

And to add further to the story: The US has lots of resources to take pictures of satellites in orbit. Even if the crew members could not have reached the under part of the leading edge, they could have had any number of military assets take a photo of it. Take a look at the link I posted to the MSNBC site. Looks to me like a large area of tile on the lower leading edge of the left wing blew off. The left tire pressure was low due to being cold: no tiles over the door. After the "launch incident" was closed, of course the tire problem was un-correlated. Nobody seems to have remembered the zipper effect. They should have off-loaded as many of the crew onto the ISS as they could get. Even if they had only been able to get two off (the reported number of suits onboard), they should have. You do not need a docking ring; just an airlock, and that is built into the Shuttle. But that would have been embarrassing. Better to just let the problem go away, or maybe we get lucky? Semper Fi, do and die. JMHO -Own

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