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Pastimes : Shuttle Columbia STS-107 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: James F. Hopkins who wrote (262)	2/3/2003 11:04:19 PM
From: Larry S.	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 627

what could they have tried? EVA to determine damage? Camera on shuttle arm - could it have reached? transfer to space station (no docking on Columbia) send up other shuttle to rescue them and have one or two try to pilot it down? try and repair the tile in space? there was no procedure to do that, and the likelihood that walking on the tiles would do further damage. as i said earlier, it appears the Columbia was doomed from the time the damage occured at launch, only they didn't know it. larry