Of course, after the shocking headlines and buried at the very end of the story is ...

"In response to Dittemore's request for the e-mails, Robert C. Doremus, a NASA employee at Johnson, on Feb. 11 summarized the earlier exchanges and concluded that Daugherty and three other engineers, on the afternoon before the breakup, agreed "we were doing a 'what-if' discussion and that we all expected a safe entry."

The emails themselves are fascinating, and much more informative than the media, not to mention without precedent. Most stories in the news we are fed lines preceded by "Sources report... " or "We have learned..."

In this case one can download the PDFs and read the actual sources for yourself.

HoustonChronicle.com - NASA foresaw tragedy, but gave no warning