[bribriagain]

btt

[G-Bear]

Even if pieces were coming off the Shuttle over California,
at that height and speed, would they have made it to the
ground? Or burnt up?

[WSGilcrest]

A related thread I posted this morning.

[tahiti]

"The shuttle and its seven-member crew continued gliding toward a planned touchdown in Florida even after the sensors had blinked out one by one."

What is the author implying with the composition of this sentence?

That there was a deliberate act to ignore the "sensors (that) had blinked out one by one" needlessly putting the shuttle in peril?

That there is and was an opportunity to "prevent" the disaster by not continuing with the re-entry?

Something to think about.