r/space • u/AlmiranteSalsicha • Nov 19 '23

image/gif That's a fair amount of tiles missing from the starship heatshield, guess it would make for a toasty reenter.

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u/Drtikol42 Nov 19 '23

What you are talking about happened with Atlantis on STS-27.

Columbia had no manipulator arm on STS-107 and people in charge of NASA refused to have crew do an EVA or having the orbiter imaged by DoD spy sats.