ABC News: NASA Was Irresponsible

At least that's what an interview with John Macidull, a former investigator on the Challenger commission implies. ABC seems to be hunting the proverbial "smoking gun" to point at and blast someone but this isn't it. Macidull has some valid points and they should be well taken but his insistence that NASA could have ordered a telescopic inspection of the underbelly of Columbia is misguided and not credible. Even the best of telescopes would have probably not been able to discern damage because of atmospheric effects on resolution.