Comment Re:Report validates the "dead man walking" assessm (Score 1) 207
The report makes it pretty clear that saving the Columbia was about as realistic as saving the Titanic.
I'm glad you weren't in charge of Apollo 13. : ) Seriously, I think your interpretation is unusual (or maybe we're talking about different documents). The CAIB pretty clearly says the scenarious were plausible. Obviously risky, with no guarantee of success, but not impossible. I can't see how you got from that to "certain doom".