Your retort gave not one scintilla of science, why that senario would not have worked if NASA was not been worried about their image, and decided to cross their fingers with 7 lives.
All they had to do was inspect the likely broken tiles... I know you said they could not do that either, but since you were wrong on the rendezvous, tell us your reason why they couldn't inspect the tiles.
It has become completely obvious that you wouldn't recognize a FACT if it bit you on your hiney, much less know what science is.
IF NASA knew of damaged tiles, there was only ONE choice that gave the astronauts a chance of survival: de-orbit and attempt to come home.
...but since you were wrong on the rendezvous...
Oh, really, OReilly? How do you come to the conclusion that I am wrong about a rendezvous? Who are they going to meet up with?