DW>> If NASA had known, near the beginning of the flight, that
 DW>> the mission was doomed, would the crew have been told?

 JB> They didn't tell the crew of Apollo 13 that they were all
 JB> going to die. :)


 JB> I hear that USAF took some pictures of the shuttle from one
 JB> of their satellites.

actually, from a groundbased telescope... they were testing a new tracking
system and just decided to try tracking the shuttle... the 'scope used can
see 1 foot sized detailes at 600 miles, IIRC...

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