Space shuttle Columbia was 16 minutes away from landing in Florida. It never made it. Instead, what our WFAA cameras captured was the shuttle exploding.
From what I understand, they actually tested the impact of insulated foam on the tiles, and initially it seemed like it wasn't strong enough to actually punch a hole in the tile and cause damage, but when they switched up WHICH tile was impacted (from a standard wing tile to the corner tile that flowed from the wing to the main body), boom. Went straight through.
Back then they showed on the news a astronaut helmet was found just sitting on the ground, totally burned, no lense, no paint, just burnt. It didn't end well for that crew, they burned to death.
@climberis1 I think your thinking of the Challenger that blew up during take-off. It eas part of the teacher in space program. It happened 1986 whereas this one had austronauts from other countries.
Oh, I'm sorry. That's not the case now. The odds of something like that happening is high in a space shuttle program. There isn't one anymore. If you still have a chance, nothing should stop you from becoming an astronaut.
I can somewhat understand why so many wanted to keep the pieces they found, but myself would have wanted to give it up. Hey, if I found a gun or a body on the side of the road, I wouldn't even touch it!! Call those who will!!
I was living in Dallas area. Heard a boom, thought one of the kids had fallen out of their bunk beds. Nope. Ran outside, looked up in the sky, could see a long white plume overhead. Turned on the tv, realized it was the Columbia. They were finding pieces all over the place. Very sad.
A rancher lady found the tape of the interior cockpit conversations that apparently showed it coming apart. There were reports of some things said before it ended. She decided to turn it over to NASA but you have to wonder if a copy was ever made.
the last tape that was salvaged (or released to the public at least) was 2 mins till predicted landing and didnt show any breakage. Apparently there was another tape that wouldnt been the last moments, but was too damaged to work
@@venus-uj1jp two minutes? That’s nonsense. The shuttle broke apart over fifteen minutes before its scheduled landing, was still over 200,000 feet in the air and over a thousand miles away from the landing site.
@@cd7071 The last message from the crew was when they were over Texas before the shuttle came apart, and the landing was due in two minutes at Cape Canaveral in Florida.
@@JimMac23 Huh? So you are saying they would have travelled from central Texas to FL in just two minutes, had they not broke apart? That’s ridiculous! The last message was at 8:59 and that was exact same time the shuttle first started coming apart. Within less than a minute it was completely destroyed. The landing in FL was not due until 9:16, about 16-17 mins later..
I sleep walk when I get really stressed out and for some reason when the season changes from summer to fall. I used to do this to my mom all the time. Needless to say she was kinda creeped out by me. When I was younger I sleep walked into the kitchen and handed my mom the phone and told her it was for her, about 5 seconds later it started ringing and it was my grandma calling for my mom. Also once I was napping on the couch, apparently according to my mom I sat up and asked her what she was watching, when she told me she was watching the space shuttle land, I said to her “well it’s gonna explode” then laid back down and went back to sleep…she was watching the Columbia shuttle. All I remember was her frantically shaking me awake asking what made me say that!! After that she started calling me baby Edgar Casey and to this day she still brings it up and asks me what made me say that. Sometimes it’s embarrassing because I have to warn new partners that sometimes i get up and walk around and hold conversations but I’m still asleep and won’t remember anything we talked about.
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Don't that FACT that they decided to wait until the Astronauts were preparing for return before they even mentioned it at all and when then Astronauts asked if they should go out and take a firsthand look, NASA said, "naaaa we think you'll be okay"... I'm sorry WHAT??? You "THINK" they will be okay. I know that one NASA worker begged to let him tell the Astronauts about it and he was warned/threatened not to do any such thing, ummm that gentleman later committed suicide.. How many NASA employees are spending the rest of their lives in prison (where they should be "in my opinion), I mean aren't they guilty of 7 murders?
@@JimMac23 No-one goes to the ISS that don't have the capability to do a walk. They even asked (once they were told, shortly before leaving the ISS) if they should go out to check and they were told "naaaa we think you'll be okay"... EDIT: That's right, my mistake, they did not visit the ISS on that mission, nevertheless the tragedy could have been avoided, control saw the issue as it happened and seeing how it was right away, I'm assuming they were well inside the abort window (not sure how all that works).. seems like just stupid little wrong decisions cause the worst... You know (I think I have this right) with the Challenger disaster, wasn't it the "O-ring" issue and they knew it was an issue so they added an additional O-ring in the design, I say, why not add 10 or 20 more or whatever but to just add 1 or 2, really?
The powers at be at NASA are to blame for the 7 lives lost that awful day. They were more concerned about their schedules than the astronauts lives. Linda Ham Colombia mission mgr and Roger Dittemore will always have blood on their hands.
The shuttle never achieved an altitude higher than 62 miles above the ground. The Air is too thin to support the Flight of anything. The pilot of the Columbia Shuttle allowed the shuttle to glide down too fast to make it appear that it was coming from space. He didn't have to do that.
My question is this. Had they stayed in space and considered the hole it made was serious, could they have fixed it and made it back safely??? Can anyone answer that!?
I read this on Wikipedia "Before reentry, NASA managers had limited the investigation, reasoning that the crew could not have fixed the problem if it had been confirmed." No idea if that was really the case or just their speculation
Allegedly there was an offer of imaging technology from the military which could have clearly assessed the damage, allowing a rescue mission from a second shuttle being sent up. NASA refused help from the military.
@@jamesrobert4106Wrong the military denied the request for imagines because of compromising photos of the shuttle to foreign enemies. It wasn’t Nasa who denied those requests.
I had come home from Lubbock that weekend to my parents house in Fort Worth. I was sleeping in the back Rec room of their house and was just kind of laying there half awake when all the windows in the house shook and rattled a couple of times. I really didn't think much about it because they had a lot of loose windows and I thought that a door had slammed. Turns out, it was a sonic boom from debris going overhead.
Where's the purple plasma impact? We all saw it live and that guy in SF got a pic of it on his Nikon (later collected by NASA). The shuttle didn't re-enter already on fire.
@@ollierobin I was 3. I probably did but I ain’t old enough to remember it. The technology to effectively edit things out of videos like this didn’t exist at the time though. I highly doubt if what you’re saying occurred did, that it took them 20 years to do it and somehow not a single trace of the original footage can be found anywhere.
Challanger is the one that blew up on take off in the 80's. Columbia is what broke up over Texas in 2000's. I was thirteen years old. Went outside that morning and saw it happen in real time.
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As soon a crew lost contact, there is a close-up video of Columbia, full of holes, peices missing and decommisioned before re-entry. That video is now missing from the internet. I think it is relevant that is was flying in prohibited air-space, attempting to cross a polar orbit it knew it wasnt supposed to.
Mission control knew there was the possibility it would happen, they never told the crew. You can see the tension on their faces . Blaming it on the fact there was an israeli astronaut in this video makes me sick to my stomach.
On February 1, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere over Texas and Louisiana, killing all seven astronauts on board. It was the second Space Shuttle mission to end in disaster, after the loss of Challenger and crew in 1986.
WOW! If you don't know, DON'T POST!! 1981 was Columbia's first flight. The Challenger disaster was in 1986 and that was BEFORE the Columbia burnt up on re-entry.
