Greetings!

Well, it looks like NASA is going to have them try to repair the "tile chinking". In some ways, I hope they are not doing this just for the sake of testing a new procedure and possibly risking the astronauts / craft. In other ways, I suspect the ground control folks were worried enough about a safe return to approve this. Lastly, I wonder how long this kind of thing has been going on, and it was just never either noticed or made public.