Headscratchers / Legends of Tomorrow S2E14 "Moonshot"

• Why doesn't Sara listen to Rip's suggestion to blast the meteoroids with the Waverider's weapons? They could have avoided Henry's Heroic Sacrifice.
  • As far as I remember all of the Waverider's weapons are forward-facing so the only way to be able to aim at the meteoroids would put the command capsule in danger.