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Originally posted by RedBumper
Don't know that but from the footage i have seen of the challenger launche you can clearly see a smoke plume comming out of the part where the ring was leacking (wich they where warned for) so one might think that they would put an extra eye on that.
On the Columbia launch you can also clearly see something hitting the ship on take-off and on top of that they had footage from the ship in space where it shows the area where the pannels where blown off.
I could be wrong but to me it seems alot of people closed their eyes for clearly visible mishaps. 
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It is immaterial...as there was no known way to save the astonauts...even knowing that the ship was not fit to re-enter. Sending up another shuttle was not even an option as there was not another shuttle prepared to do so. If the astronauts were told that their ship was not fit for re-entry...they had two options...die slowly or die instantly upon re-entry.