I watched a former shuttle astronaut on PBS saying even if they knew there was a problem a day after liftoff they had very limited or any options - Their orbit was too low to go to the space station and too low to maintain with limited supplies etc... He made very calm and rational comments about the incident - very logical and very convincing. Much different than some of the accusations steeped in uninformed bais I have read over the past couple of days at the du and sadly from a few posters here.