[YaYa123]

Former astronaut Tom Henricks says as a shuttle commander, he would have wanted to know about possible danger on re-entry, and he assumes NASA informed this crew about the damage to the tiles on take-off.

The MSNBC anchor is almost hyper-ventilating trying to turn this into a NASA conspiracy. Thank God!!! NBC flight expert, Robert Hager, reminds the hyperventilating anchor that this memo from the group of engineers who were studying take-off, does not say the damage WAS 2 1/2 X 7 in size. The memo says the damage "COULD POSSIBLY be that large.

[McGruff]

Thanks for the reports. Speculation seems to be rampant today. Hopefully calmer heads will prevail in the end.

[My back yard]

As sad a day as it was, it could only be made sadder by the kind of speculation that seems determined to second guess and blame the NASA engineers, way before any evidence is conclusive. That could only stiffle and deter future projects and support, and that would be a tragic result of this terrible accident.