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germanbird writes:
"ArsTechnica has published a story taking a look at NASA's theoretical rescue plan for the space shuttle Columbia. The ambitious yet plausible plan was included as part of the report prepared during the investigation after the shuttle was lost during re-entry. I appreciate the author's perspective and his analysis of things as a sys-admin at Boeing he was much closer to the situation than most of us were. I for one would have liked to see the men and women at NASA given the chance to try to pull this one off, but I'm not sure it would have been worth the risk to the rescue team or even possible given the compressed schedule."
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(Score: 2, Informative) by quacking duck on Friday February 28 2014, @09:11PM
Some in NASA suspected a more serious problem and wanted to request help from the US military for some visual inspection by spy satellites, but no formal request was made:
"Wayne Hale, a senior flight director now serving as launch integration manager at the Kennedy Space Center, made inquiries about the possibility of Air Force help inspecting Columbia. But those initial efforts were terminated by senior management"
http://www.spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts107/03031 4readdy/ [spaceflightnow.com]