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Not so much panic, but cautious. That shuttle gets some serious temperature on re-entry, you don't want to really be losing heat tiles. Hopefully, they're only a small enough area, in a non critical area and will not present any real issues.
The astronauts had done some imaging for mission control but the shots weren't clear enough and they're going to use the remote arm to do some more imaging of the affected area. Mission management are going to make a decision tomorrow. NASA has a 2nd shuttle and crew ready go for this mission, due to the amount of debris in the hubble geo stationery orbit location, which could possibly damage Atlantis (heat tiles loss aside).
Dave
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