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coldsteaklint (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Excellent assembly of the video and audio. Good work, xalteridemx.
TheOnlyMaleFllnAngel (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Well of course you could, the thing was going at mach 25 during most of the re-entry burn.
DaMastaSkullFox (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
In a lot of pictures shown on CNN there is a couple that are very interesting.
first is the debris from the tanks falling and hitting the wing when in lift off.
second is the picture from an outside camera that clearly show the damage on the wing.
Technicians told them that this was minor damage and would not interfere with reentry... well I guess they now they were wrong... let the deaths of the courageous crew haunt them till the end of their lives...
CroakerMD (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
They don't have the fuel to "abort" once they do the re-entry burn. IF they had known about the damage in advance, there is a remote possibility another craft could have been sent to rescue them. That would depend on the state of readiness of other shuttles/orbiters.
coreyagraph (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
i would like for someone to explain...if high alt cameras saw this within ascent, how could they have aborted? they never would have been able to train for such a thing.
mairfrog (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
Why would he transmit "Feeling the heat" out of the blue? Not exactly comms procedure is it? Also, for him to be saying that he has to have a most unnatural, robotic inflection; "fee-lin-the heat". Even Stephen Hawkins would say that line with more emotion.
There was no cover up, no conspiracy, it was simply an unfortunate tragedy and a reminder that the margins of safety for space flight are still tiny. Pioneers draw the maps, as it were.
RIP Columbia.
JMChladek (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
As I understand it, multiple sonic booms were heard over Texas as the pieces descended low enough in the atmosphere to generate booms that could be heard. It apparently sounded like a crackle. Good video footage combining. I've seen similar, but this is the most elaborate.
Kcfan413 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
they said u could hear a sonic boom sound over some parts of texas
fenrislupus (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
I'm sorry for the loss you know... in 86 as well... and I also hear "feelin the heat". Quite clearly... so the question remains why cover it up? Nothing cowardly about something so calm as feelin the heat....
mjanovec (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)
There was expected to be a little communications problems with that portion of the re-entry. Also, the Shuttle crew does not transmit continuously. By the time the crew knew they were in trouble, they had no ability to communicate to the ground or, even if they did for a brief moment, they were probably too busy trying to get the Shuttle under control.
Mission Control seems calm because they are trained to remain calm and watch the data on the screens. |
