Am 27.03.2020 um 19:55 schrieb Henry Spencer:
On Thu, 26 Mar 2020, ken mason wrote:
I know the official story Bill but It is common knowledge such imagery
was used in a earlier mission were tiles were dislodged from the aft
end of the orbiter, can't remember the mission but it's on record. So
it would be ludicrous that they wouldn't utilize such assets again.
Note what Bill said: yes, such imaging was done on other occasions (the
missing-tiles incident you're thinking of was probably STS-1), but this
time, the risk was thought slight and it didn't seem worth the hassles
of trying to talk the spooks into doing short-notice imaging. These
weren't *NASA* assets, remember: it meant asking for a big favor from
some difficult people.