They were too task saturated to think about good or bad days. It becomes take care of spacecraft and get it landed. Somehow. In the middle of chaos no one trained or ever briefed you on. The great pilots are the ones that walk away. They don't put bird strikes in aircraft manuals either but abort takeoff existed. You just pick an option and hope it's not your time. I'd like to see a robot try to stay in one piece. It couldn't adapt to what human pilots have done in space or on earth. The computers beat pilots at precision but not always problem solving. I'd imagine those guys didn't have much time to think at Mach 25. Their options were try something until positive change happens or die trying something else.
Computer chips don't got the will to live.
As Dad always said "What are you stressed about, you can't crash a desk." Best f---in' line ever.
