Here's to the anti-human environmentalist hippies who forced our flagship spacecraft to use inferior "green" insulation! Fuck you all very much, murderers!
I am witness of Jesus Christ.I saw this in a dream 2 weeks b4 it happened. I told my brother in law that i had a weird dream . i was in a neighborhood with single family homes it was night and i was standing outside,all of the sudden the space shuttle appeared it had these beautiful colors on the bottom and it they seemed very peaceful as it kept going it finally was out of my view and then i heard an explosion i said to my self it blew up then i woke up.2 weeks later in happened.I failed :(
$56 million to investigate this accident. $3 million to investigate 9-11-2001 ... anyone smell a foul odor. War Merchants have made $3 trillion since 911 on phony wars. Taxpayers paid that bill. Get it! False flags are the lottery times one million!
ok regardless of if the restraints and helmets worked, do you really think they would have survived? i mean come on why even report on something like this?
The way they made it sound seems like the restraints and suits were actually suppose to have provided some degree of survivability. At those speeds, once pressure was lost, even god himself couldn't have saved them
@sammy2trees - God allows men to have free will. If you jump off tall cliff, or fall from an airplane you will die. There is always some risk in flying and in space travel that risk is higher. If the Pentagon has 1200 security cameras watching every hallway and driveway why couldn't these engineers have implanted some cameras to monitor the exterior of the craft. This accident did not have to happen.
@abarai2007 - God exists and one day you will learn that. You will not get to meet Him, since you deny heaven, but you'll know he exists and that you messed up BIGTIME, since God permits no u-turns after one dies. Outside the Catholic Church, there is no salvation- Dogmatic definition of many Popes as well as affirmed by hundreds of Saints and Apparitions.
@sammy2trees It really had more to do with how the suits and restraints performed. If the astronauts had been in a survivable situation, these suits and restraints would need to perform correctly in order to give them a chance. Obviously this accident wasn't survivable, but if it were, the suit integrity and seat restraints would have actually hindered any attempts to survive the accident.
Approximately 82 seconds after launch from Kennedy Space Center's LC-39-A, a suitcase-size piece of thermal insulation foam broke off from the External Tank (ET), striking Columbia's left wing reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC) panels. As demonstrated by ground experiments conducted by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, this likely created a 6-to-10-inch (15 to 25 cm) diameter hole, allowing hot gases to enter the wing when Columbia later reentered the atmosphere.--wikipedia
Although the air at 38 miles altitude would be nearly none existent to us, their speed of around 16,000 miles per hour would indeed have created a pressure zone not unlike being hit with a sandblaster at supersonic speed. Once the aerodynamic integrity of the shuttle was lost, it was torn apart. Would have been impossible to prevent anything but this to happen. Thus why the aging shuttle fleet was retired. The technology was very outdated. I attended a seminar with a Nasa Engineer 10 years ago
To all of the people angrily telling me that every piece of the orbiter was torn apart, read the actual report. It clearly states that the cabin was more or less (emphasis here) intact, compared with the rest of the shuttle. The same thing is actually true of the Challenger explosion, but now I'm just asking for more heat from people who didn't do any research except watching this very video.
@krazykhrisya The cabin was intact after structurally separating from the rest of the orbiter but was not intact when it hit the ground. After separating, it basically peeled like an onion on the way down structurally breaking up more and burning. The largest piece left was the 2 halves of the front window frames. The other 8000 pices collected from the crew module were significantly smaller.
@krazykhrisya Add me to that list. It seems you didn't actually read the Columbia Accident report because the report clearly states that the crew cabin disintegrated within seconds after it separated and was exposed to aerodynamic forces of re-entry. It took about 17 seconds for the crew module to disintegrate. Page 66 of the report. On the other hand, the Challenger crew cabin survived intact and was found about 6 months after the accident.
Regardless, they would have been killed instantly, the moment the shuttle broke apart. They probably would have been vaporized. It was still flying at over 12,000 MPH. So even if they were still alive or even conscious up to the moment the shuttle came apart, they wouldn't have been a microsecond later. That's one thing at least...the crew wouldn't have suffered. There probably was a few seconds of terror for them when they realized they were out of control, but then it was all over.
@ct92404 The crew wasnt vaporized at all. Torn apart yes, but all bodies (or what was left ) was recovered. It was determined they were alive for about a minute and 25 seconds or so at the beginning of breakup.
I don't know why idiots want to criticize a disaster like this. The complexities of spaceflight are far beyond the comprehension of most people, and it befuddles me as to how navigating YouTube qualifies a person to be an expert critic. Space flight will never be routing or safe. Astronauts are always a millisecond or millimeter from instant death. Got balls? Not behind a keyboard you don't.
What shit is this. You eject from an airplane at 600 knots your dead anyways! They were doing the speed of sound. They died the the second they hit the air!
Top commenters are idiots. Read the accident report before criticizing it. It's easy to find. A 55 second report on AP tells you nothing. These guys probably thing Fox news is the truth.
they should have jumped out and flapped.. they would have floated back up into space and they could stay on the ISS until they could have been rescued,
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Well there you have it folks. This is why you should be good little government controlled sheep and wear you seatbelts and helmets. Remember this the next time you're traveling at 17,000 mph. The seatbelts and helmets failed. Dammit, they could've been saved. NOT! What gov't moron would even post this report?
@lizard944 The cabin survived you ass, and if it weren't for the turbulance they'd experience, with their seatbelts and helmets you could have survived. Don't be an ignorant douche.
@krazykhrisya how the fuck would you survive falling that distance in the cabin though. You most likely were unconscious and seriously close to shock after the explosion. If not dead all ready
@oOToStopANightmareOo you do know that the Bible talks about things that scientists..."discovered"...such as air having weight...and the world not being a square and space being empty and the earth not having anything hold it up right?
If they had a check with a satellite they would have seen the hole but unfortunately no due diligence was done and they were thus doomed to die because some administrators wanted to save a few bucks.
Placing a body into a slipstream at 500 mph causes massive trauma - broken hips, skulls, arms and legs - as well as strips all of the clothing from your body.
At 14,000 mph the astronauts would have been shredded. If they were still conscious and had their visor down as soon as the orbiter broke up the spinning would have ejected them out of the orbiter. That instant they would die from the acceleration, the g-forces, the heat and trauma. It would have been nearly instant.
@Knepperify1 500 mph? Ever hear of the guy who ejected from an SR-71 at Mach 3? He got a bunch of bumps and bruises, his suit remained intact and he survived.
@scooby1971 The determination of how the crew died was changed because of later evidence recovered from the debris that took some time to figure out. The crew was subject to Mach 12 winds where their suits shredded and burned. The partial pressure suit only works if it was fully donned. Many of the crew were behind the time line in donning their entire suit. One didnt even have the helmet on yet.
@amgen52 That's nothing really new. I'm aware of that information and I think it may have been in the official report. What I was saying is that if you look at the official report, the sections that describe what happened to the crew has been removed from the officially published report. Only the astronauts families and people inside of NASA familiar with the investigation saw the details of how the crew may have suffered during the break up.
@amgen52 Yep, just re-read the section that contained the information about what the crew experienced and the report does state that 6 of the 7 crew members had their helmets on.
@scooby1971 There is a major difference between Mach 3 and 17,000 mph of a shuttle re-entry. The shuttle is not a airplane. If something goes wrong, the crew is going to die, suits and restraints are irrelevant. It was found that the commander of the Challenger hit the emergency detach system. The explosion destroyed the shuttle just the same. It was a high risk system. The crews knew it going in, as did anyone who looked at it for what it was.
@amgen52 Quite real. The shuttle could be detached from the boosters and main fuel tank by the commander,( the large metal thing between the solid rocket boosters), in an emergency. The same system that is used to release the tank once the engine burn sequence is complete? Ring any bells? They don't drag the tank around the whole flight. Same system, just used to get away in an emergency. That way it could come back, provided it isn't after reaching the point of "no return".
@GunBroker100 Its your wording. No such nomenclature called Emergency Detach System. Yes there are 2 toggle switches and 2 buttons on panel C2. Either the CDR or the pilot can get to these. These are in auto during normal flight. They can switch them to manual and release them if req. I've moved them many times myself during test with the crews. I'm very familiar with orbiter ops but large metal thing?
@amgen52 Yeah, you know, the main liquid hydrogen fuel tank the orbiter and SRB's are attached to? So you must work for NASA, the JPL or one of the myriad contractors. Congrats. But the fact remains in the event of an emergency, and provided they have the time, they can release the shuttle from the assembly. No matter what label you stick on it. They also have an ejection system as I understand it. But hey, you're apparently a rocket scientist. I'm sure you'll correct me, if I'm wrong.
@GunBroker100 Yes, the crew can separate the SRB's or the orbiter from the tank manually if req. In a controlled abort. The ejection system consist of giving each of them a parachute and an escape pole attached to the middeck ceiling.The hatch is blown, the pole is extended (by spring) and they hook them selves to the pole and jump. The poles purpose is to throw them clear of the delta wing. This all has to be done at level controlled flight.
@amgen52 So, we come back, at last, to my original assertion. It remained until the last flight an experimental and hazardous means of transport. And a serious problem will mean the death of the astronauts. All that to get back were we started.
@GunBroker100 Thats funny. I dont know if I read your original assertion. But every rocket launch is dangerous & hazardous. There will be many more accidents over the years to come by govts. & private companies. The fact that the shuttle carried 7 crewman normally made the death toll high. If Nasa had a blank check to design the shuttle, I'm sure it would have turned out different. The design was dictated by politicians with a budget, the Air Force, DOD etc.
@amgen52 It probably wasn't but one of the other posters then. I commented about people freaking out when bad things happen like Columbia. And pointed out this was nothing like boarding an airliner, that it was a very hazardous proposition, and bad things happen sometimes. Man, you'd of thought a liked their dog or something. I still consider the shuttle one of man kinds greatest achievements, along with Hubble & the SR-71, both ended by much lesser politicians. But just me, I guess.
@GunBroker100 Agree with you. Aircraft have flowm millions of flights. They have worked out the kinks. Space flight is a thousand times more demanding and only a few hundred have been launched worldwide. Its costly and right on the edge of physics and what man can do. After a few thousand more flights, it will be old hat....
@amgen52 Given the variables and conditions under which these craft were launched, I'm honestly amazed there weren't more problems. Even the tried and true airliner has problems and crashes, so with it's safety record, the shuttle is a marvel. cancelling the shuttle was, in my view, a huge mistake. A decision come to by short sighted and lesser politicians. Which I could do happily without. The sooner our space program is back on track, the better.
@GunBroker100 I think the reason the shuttle program was canceled was simply because of money. I remember when these things were on the "drawing board" back in about 1968. NASA said space travel would become commonplace, and these things would become cost effective by launching satellites etc. They never became cost effective and they have now become obsolete. The amount of science they can gather is already known and orbital space flight is no longer necessary.
@clintonearlwalker Yeah, me too. But I remember by this time everyone was supposed to have flying cars too. Now, it's time to construct a ship in orbit that can be used for exploring the solar system. "We have the technology", to borrow from an old T.V. show. As much money as politicians waste on completely stupid stuff, you'd think they could figure out space is still important. It's time to return to the moon and beyond.
@GunBroker100 Actually, I think the problem is we don't have the technology. It takes months to get a vehicle to Mars, that presents all types of problems for manned vehicles. Couple that with the fact that unmanned vehicles, Earth bound sensors, or orbital probes like Hubble can get nearly the same amount of info for 10 times cheaper or more without the risk of human death as in Columbia, Challenger, Apollo 1 etc.
The speed at that point was about 14,000 mph. Nose up, 41°angle, when the left wing broke up and hydraulics were lost the orbiter would begin to violently spin at a rate far in excess for crew survivability. The g-forces would have quickly blacked out all of the crew. When the master alarm sounded, most would have lowered and locked their visors but that wasn't going to help. A few seconds later they pass out, then are ejected.
If they had a check with a satellite they would have seen the hole but unfortunately no due diligence was done and they were thus doomed to die because some administrators wanted to save a few bucks.
@XmojotronX There is nothing that allows them to look at the wings while they are in orbit nor did they have any reason to want to examine them. The crew was not aware that the shuttle had any life threatening damage, but had they known there would have been procedures to determine what to do. You can't see the wings of the shuttle from inside the shuttle. The ONLY possible way to examining them would be to use the robotic arm with the camera attached.
@XmojotronX The cameras in the payload bay could not see it. The crew from the crew compartment could not see it. Maybe if a space walk was done they would have found it.
@40390576 Maybe Misunderstanding...I wasn't saying NASA shouldn't release information but I was talking about some media outlets that were hypocritical. Many reported that it was "controversial" and "unnecessary" for the pilots graphic detail of their individual painful deaths to be published.....Then they go into the same graphic detail.
I am a member of a gore website and this doesn't even compared to their fucked up shit, but youtube may not be the best place for people being killed.
@Nautilus1972 Yes. At that speed 90% of the heat on the outside of the shuttle is caused not by friction, but by the compression of the very thin air! What would such compression do to a human body?
@Nautilus1972 they would have protected them against the trauma, although they may have already been dead or died soon after. Don't talk as if you know what the fuck happened
@ fatal events in just over 100 shuttle launches. 1 every fifty, counting all the precautions made. Skydiving(excluding base jumping) results in a fatality about every 25-50k jumps-including jumpers who take chances. This suggests you would have been 500-maybe even 1000 times more likely to be killed going up in the space shuttle than jumping out of an airplane. Aborting a launch-once in the air-will involve the same sacrifice as going into orbit,sans the benefits thereof.
What didn't work well? If you're 38 miles above the ground going thousands of miles an hour, your suit doesn't mean dink. If your vehicle breaks apart you're going to die.
@cyclos12 Sounds like a spacecraft subject to enormous amounts of kinetic energy got damaged on take off. Ever watch NASA contractors test their prototypes? There are thousands of factors that can contribute to crashes, even when things are small and extremely simplified.
@cyclos12 hmmmmm that would sound pretty convincing if it was someone political, but when I think about it these astronauts pretty much had nothing to reveal, but you can never know right?
NASA = Never A Straight Answer or at least that's what I've heard. I'm aware that accidents can happen at anytime,and this was indeed tragic, but those shuttles were worn out despite the rigorous efforts to maintain them. It's actually,considering the variables involved, a miracle only 2 shuttles were lost over that span of time.I hope to see the space program re-engaged in my lifetime.It's the last frontier and holds limitless possibilities for the future & more importantly us as a species.
A/P.... Starts off with a report that seems to chastise the release of graphic detailed information to the public... but then goes into graphic detailed information. I just don't see the point. The families were already having enough trouble and what is the point of talking about the information unless you have some reason have people turn in anger to the administration. Going into space is dangerous.
@AlcoholicSemenStain2 Yea, learning about the universe we live in is such a waste of money. I saw your other comments. You called 9/11 funny. You must be a very sick sociopath. You belong in an asylum
@AlcoholicSemenStain2 Oh yea ok. Because Russia, Australia, Britain, China, and all of our allies and the other 1st world countries don't count right? Your a fuckin moron. Just because your probably part of a radical hate group doesnt mean other ppl are. You should talk to sane ppl. You know, the ones that don't walk into crowded squares with dynamite up their ass an blow them selves up for allah. Fuck you and have a nice day.
They were dead long before they hit the ground...or more accurately what was left of them when they hit the ground. I think they found a hip and part of a leg bone somewhere. The temperatures and deceleration would have been beyond anything you can imagine, and the moment the ship broke up, they were dead in seconds.
No, the g-forces of the shuttle spinning as the left wing broke up would have been far beyond what humans can tolerate and survive. The shuttle would have begun to spin, the seats, restraints, helmets and suits would have come loose, the astronauts would then have impacted the inside of the cabin at violent and fatal velocities.
Only later would they have been ejected into the slipstream.
Then their bodies (they would have been dead) would have mostly burned up upon re-entry.
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Ok i understand that these happen and i feel bad... BUT STILL FUCK OBAMA FOR CANCELING THE SPACE PROGRAM, NOW WERE WORKING WITH THE FUCKING RUSSIANS? THIS STARTED TO TRY TO BEAT THEM IN SPACE TECHNOLOGY!
@TaskForce036 We had no money for the space program any more. And this isn't the past, Russia is now our ally and a valued one at that. Just because we had a little competition with them back then doesn't mean we have to resent them now. Teaming up with the second best space program in the world was an excellent idea
@40390576 Why does this offend you so much? Are you one of those people who desperately runs around, looking for some mistake to correct so evveryone will know how smart you are?
@40390576 Thats PURE speculation. I think I remember John Lear saying something about this too actually. I don't remember which space shuttle he said, but the guy was yelling things like You motherfuckers, you killed us, I told you so etc etc something like that. An old friend of mine went to college with a guy who went on to go pretty high in NASA, and he overheard the transmission. You can speculate all you want, but thats what I was told.
@Stillwater900 You were lied to because the entire flight communication between the shuttle and mission control was transmitted live on NASA TV and if something had been said to that effect, we would all know it.
@40390576 Yeah, none that was made public. Gosh, people always assume that they told every single thing... A friend of mine heard that from someone who worked on transmissions. I forget the details, it was the guy who was a but of an outcast or something, was real critical of the flight.
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hmmmmm let me see it blows up in the middle of the air when they break the sound barrier would they be knocked out or dead i recon they would be dead im sorry to say that i know its hard but what idiot thinks that they would be alive after it blowed up in the middle of the air
@scream18ify It didnt blow up but broke apart. They were not going thru a sound barrier. They were going Mach 12 at the time. The crew module separated before it broke apart and burned as well. Crew was alive about a minute or two before they parished.
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It would "not" be unlike the usa-tards to:
1. Sacrifice/kill their own for the sake of something (in the case of the columbia deaths, for more funding).
OR
2. The apollo deaths of Gus Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee to eliminate Grissom's threat to expose all the faked moon landings.
OR
3. The false flag 911 inside job used as a pretext to steal middle east resources in an attempt to save the doomed u.s. economy (but too little, too late, we hope).
If you are a truth seeker, search "Truth Contest" in Google and click on the 1st result, then open The Present and read what it says. Everyone needs to see this. The Present will turn this world right-side up if it reaches enough people. You will see what I mean when you read the first page.
@Stillwater900 that was the Challenger crew..the parts of Columbia were found in Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana I think..The crew died a few seconds after the accident due to the violent spinning of the cabin, lack of oxygen and the heat of reentry
@marcelkade God, I heard that they knew they were going die for a few seconds, and one of the men was yelling You killed us you motherfuckers I told you so!! Hell of a way to die though
@Stillwater900 You are wrong and are thinking about Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov - Soyuz 1 ////// you can look it up on youtube and read his storyand hear the recordings its called death of a cosmonaut-soyuz-1 cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov. Columbia crew never had a chance to say any last words..
@billy3rdkill0311 No no, this was one of our missions, the story seems similar though. I'm not a space buff, it might have been the other one that blew up.
@Stillwater900 I dont want to sound like a ass but you are still wrong the Challengers last radio contact was the comander saying going full Throttle. sorry my friend the ony person to tell ground control that they killed him was vlad. However a Several engineers—most notably Roger Boisjoly did not want challenger to lift off do to the o-rings/cold weather and he said you are sending them to their fucking deaths and than he walked out..maybe thats what you are thinking about ;)
I think that the Indian (dot head) cunt ate too much curry at dinner the night before. She farted or qweefed out some seriously epic curry farts which fried the RCS's printed circuit boards.
Thinking about it, a repair mission might off been possible with another shuttle using its robotic arm to carry an astronaut with heat resistant carbon/kelver sheets and epoxy resin. Was unaware they were carrying space suits, but EVAing 7 astronauts without docking gear, untrained in EVA , with 5 hour suit up time, no known procedure notes, 7 return seats etc etc would of probably resulted in the loss of 9 lives and 2 Orbiters.
NASA are such liars. They still haven't come clear on how they determined one of the tiles were damaged--only by assumption. Of course, they needed a reason for something they couldn't explain what really happened. 2/3 of Columbia is still missing, geniuses...
@vseae15o They have details. They SAW a chunk of foam hit the leading edge of the wing. They SAW sensors in the LEFT WING go out as the Shuttle descended. 1+1 still equals 2.
@vseae15o They have details. They SAW a chunk of foam hit the leading edge of the wing. They SAW sensors in the LEFT WING go out as the Shuttle descended. 1 plus1 still equals 2.
@vseae15o "They still haven't come clear on how they determined one of the tiles were damaged"
Have you read the CAIB report? They used telemetry to determine the path of the plasma, splatter patterns on recovered debris, location and quantity of debris, and engineering data recorded onboard. Combined, this conclusively demonstrated damage in the same area as the foam strike.
Tests on RCC demonstrated that a foam strike could cause catastrophic damage.
@roamingcroat i'm sure not many has seen the report or the data recordings onboard the shuttle. if i was part of the commission to write that CAIB "factoid" report I would make damn sure that those astronauts' death were very conclusive and it was not due to any stupid mistakes on behalf of NASA. Do you believe all things people say?
@vseae15o If you were a professional and you want to know precisely how the accident occurred, then you would make sure the report had every last detail,which it does.I've read the report and it is very detailed and shows that the destruction of Columbia began with a hole in the wing at the location of RCC panel 8. The report also details how the astronauts died as well and there is the possibility that they were alive, but unconscious up until the destruction of the crew compartment
@vseae15o The determination of how the crew died was actually in the original report but was later redacted before it was published. Only the astronauts families were given the unredacted report so they're the only ones outside of NASA who know the details of their deaths.
@vseae15o Tiles had nothing to do with this accident. You're thinking RCC panels I hope. The RCC panel hit can be seen in launch video. Thats what started the investigation on orbit in the 1st place. One thing the public has not seen is the re-building of the fwd part of the wing. There is clearly a pattern. You can clearly see molten metal being burned away and splattering on the wing, fuselage and tail in the air stream of the RCC panel which had the hole.
I'd give my own life to bring these astronauts back to life.
11Wes88 4 days ago
@11Wes88 no you wouldnt.
blastingcaps 1 day ago
a horrible way to die. :'( RIP
ElenaTheMonster 2 weeks ago
Here's to the anti-human environmentalist hippies who forced our flagship spacecraft to use inferior "green" insulation! Fuck you all very much, murderers!
JohnSkookum 2 weeks ago
@Slugg0matic good job
daoneproductions 2 weeks ago
cheerful stuff. kind of a given that you're gonna die at 17,500mph. Oh darn, my seatbelt has come loose. Fuck it, gonna die anyway.
phuturephunk01 3 weeks ago
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I am witness of Jesus Christ.I saw this in a dream 2 weeks b4 it happened. I told my brother in law that i had a weird dream . i was in a neighborhood with single family homes it was night and i was standing outside,all of the sudden the space shuttle appeared it had these beautiful colors on the bottom and it they seemed very peaceful as it kept going it finally was out of my view and then i heard an explosion i said to my self it blew up then i woke up.2 weeks later in happened.I failed :(
Terceira73 3 weeks ago
cant believe the black man died
Squeaky4CC 3 weeks ago
$56 million to investigate this accident. $3 million to investigate 9-11-2001 ... anyone smell a foul odor. War Merchants have made $3 trillion since 911 on phony wars. Taxpayers paid that bill. Get it! False flags are the lottery times one million!
390bullitt1968 1 month ago
This was shocking as hell to watch live when it happened, I'll never forget that day... RIP to them all.
hitcan79 1 month ago
ok regardless of if the restraints and helmets worked, do you really think they would have survived? i mean come on why even report on something like this?
transam0141 1 month ago
The way they made it sound seems like the restraints and suits were actually suppose to have provided some degree of survivability. At those speeds, once pressure was lost, even god himself couldn't have saved them
sammy2trees 1 month ago
@sammy2trees god(if he exists) wouldn't have saved them anyway
abarai2007 1 month ago
@abarai2007 I agree!
The Christian god (if he exists) definitely would not have saved them because he is a cruel, petty, sadistic bastard!
sammy2trees 1 month ago
@sammy2trees - God allows men to have free will. If you jump off tall cliff, or fall from an airplane you will die. There is always some risk in flying and in space travel that risk is higher. If the Pentagon has 1200 security cameras watching every hallway and driveway why couldn't these engineers have implanted some cameras to monitor the exterior of the craft. This accident did not have to happen.
390bullitt1968 3 weeks ago
@abarai2007 - God exists and one day you will learn that. You will not get to meet Him, since you deny heaven, but you'll know he exists and that you messed up BIGTIME, since God permits no u-turns after one dies. Outside the Catholic Church, there is no salvation- Dogmatic definition of many Popes as well as affirmed by hundreds of Saints and Apparitions.
390bullitt1968 3 weeks ago
@390bullitt1968 That's funny stuff, right there.
vomit49894 3 weeks ago
@sammy2trees It really had more to do with how the suits and restraints performed. If the astronauts had been in a survivable situation, these suits and restraints would need to perform correctly in order to give them a chance. Obviously this accident wasn't survivable, but if it were, the suit integrity and seat restraints would have actually hindered any attempts to survive the accident.
scooby1971 1 month ago
Approximately 82 seconds after launch from Kennedy Space Center's LC-39-A, a suitcase-size piece of thermal insulation foam broke off from the External Tank (ET), striking Columbia's left wing reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC) panels. As demonstrated by ground experiments conducted by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, this likely created a 6-to-10-inch (15 to 25 cm) diameter hole, allowing hot gases to enter the wing when Columbia later reentered the atmosphere.--wikipedia
clintonearlwalker 1 month ago
Although the air at 38 miles altitude would be nearly none existent to us, their speed of around 16,000 miles per hour would indeed have created a pressure zone not unlike being hit with a sandblaster at supersonic speed. Once the aerodynamic integrity of the shuttle was lost, it was torn apart. Would have been impossible to prevent anything but this to happen. Thus why the aging shuttle fleet was retired. The technology was very outdated. I attended a seminar with a Nasa Engineer 10 years ago
MrPolymers 1 month ago
@What technology was out dated that contributed to this accident or caused the shuttle fleet to be retired?
amgen52 1 month ago
@MrPolymers What technology was out dated that contributed to this accident or caused the shuttle fleet to be retired?
amgen52 1 month ago
MY DAD WAS ONE OF THE ONES WHO FOUND PART OF THE GIRLS BODY
hottboy19891 2 months ago
To all of the people angrily telling me that every piece of the orbiter was torn apart, read the actual report. It clearly states that the cabin was more or less (emphasis here) intact, compared with the rest of the shuttle. The same thing is actually true of the Challenger explosion, but now I'm just asking for more heat from people who didn't do any research except watching this very video.
krazykhrisya 2 months ago
@krazykhrisya The cabin was intact after structurally separating from the rest of the orbiter but was not intact when it hit the ground. After separating, it basically peeled like an onion on the way down structurally breaking up more and burning. The largest piece left was the 2 halves of the front window frames. The other 8000 pices collected from the crew module were significantly smaller.
amgen52 1 month ago
@krazykhrisya Add me to that list. It seems you didn't actually read the Columbia Accident report because the report clearly states that the crew cabin disintegrated within seconds after it separated and was exposed to aerodynamic forces of re-entry. It took about 17 seconds for the crew module to disintegrate. Page 66 of the report. On the other hand, the Challenger crew cabin survived intact and was found about 6 months after the accident.
scooby1971 1 month ago
So sad, the first blacks in space. New voice recording has the final words, "Nigga don't touch that".
lijoti513 2 months ago
R.I.P. Kalpana Chawla, Rick Husband, Laurel Clark, David Brown, Willie McCool, Ilan Ramon, and Michael Anderson.
k2477456 2 months ago 26
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i cant wait for the film to come out!!! yehhhhwa!!!
plasticspastic201 2 months ago
Regardless, they would have been killed instantly, the moment the shuttle broke apart. They probably would have been vaporized. It was still flying at over 12,000 MPH. So even if they were still alive or even conscious up to the moment the shuttle came apart, they wouldn't have been a microsecond later. That's one thing at least...the crew wouldn't have suffered. There probably was a few seconds of terror for them when they realized they were out of control, but then it was all over.
ct92404 2 months ago
@ct92404 The crew wasnt vaporized at all. Torn apart yes, but all bodies (or what was left ) was recovered. It was determined they were alive for about a minute and 25 seconds or so at the beginning of breakup.
amgen52 2 months ago
@Slugg0matic well played sir I agree. Bravest people in the world right there If u ask me.
csigh89 2 months ago
@csigh89 I agree. I'm afraid to get on an air plane let alone a space shuttle going into space. Simple person like me wasn't meant to fly.
1020Shane 2 months ago
The real problem at hand is that they need to stop naming their shuttles starting with 'C'
atsay714 2 months ago 2
I don't know why idiots want to criticize a disaster like this. The complexities of spaceflight are far beyond the comprehension of most people, and it befuddles me as to how navigating YouTube qualifies a person to be an expert critic. Space flight will never be routing or safe. Astronauts are always a millisecond or millimeter from instant death. Got balls? Not behind a keyboard you don't.
Slugg0matic 2 months ago 23
@Slugg0matic This.
eroticide 1 month ago
Congratulations Nasa. Sounds like you didn't learn from your mistakes and killed another 7 astronauts. No wonder the space program was shut down.
So much for rocket scientists being smart after what i have seen
garycalgary 2 months ago
What shit is this. You eject from an airplane at 600 knots your dead anyways! They were doing the speed of sound. They died the the second they hit the air!
WizzRacing 2 months ago
Top commenters are idiots. Read the accident report before criticizing it. It's easy to find. A 55 second report on AP tells you nothing. These guys probably thing Fox news is the truth.
05891460 2 months ago
they should have jumped out and flapped.. they would have floated back up into space and they could stay on the ISS until they could have been rescued,
plasticspastic201 2 months ago
@plasticspastic201 they didn't know the hole was there. that why they checked Discovery when it wen't up after this happened.
simpsonfan13 2 months ago
@plasticspastic201 please don't comment on space related stuff....
Dogmeat1950 2 months ago
@Dogmeat1950 please dont fuck your mother it makes mongols like you.
plasticspastic201 2 months ago
@plasticspastic201 "it makes mongols" trying to say there is something wrong with a group of people that formed the largest Empire in history? :)
no your comment was highly uneducated... and you need to be told that
Dogmeat1950 2 months ago
I think they would have been unconscious if they survived the break up.. at that altitude?
lordcrumb07 2 months ago
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mankind is led into the darkness beyond our world by the inspiration of discovery and the longing to understand. our journey into space will go on.
timothyp873 3 months ago
I wish my last name was McCool.
KayBeeEee1983 3 months ago
Żeby tak po zamachu w Smoleńsku wszystko było zabezpieczone i zbadane jak w USA. Zaraz wyszłoby na jaw, że ruscy wciąż mordują Polaków. Za mało im było wymordować Polską elitę w Katyniu, to na dokładkę mamy Smoleńsk.
KrzysiekCSPB 3 months ago
Well there you have it folks. This is why you should be good little government controlled sheep and wear you seatbelts and helmets. Remember this the next time you're traveling at 17,000 mph. The seatbelts and helmets failed. Dammit, they could've been saved. NOT! What gov't moron would even post this report?
lizard944 3 months ago 40
@lizard944 The cabin survived you ass, and if it weren't for the turbulance they'd experience, with their seatbelts and helmets you could have survived. Don't be an ignorant douche.
krazykhrisya 2 months ago
@krazykhrisya
>implying the cabin actually survived and you arn't simply talking out of your ass
Smokingfox3 2 months ago
@krazykhrisya The cabin survived what ? It broke apart structurally like the rest of the orbiter.
amgen52 2 months ago
@krazykhrisya how the fuck would you survive falling that distance in the cabin though. You most likely were unconscious and seriously close to shock after the explosion. If not dead all ready
TheDavebowman123 2 months ago
@eviltube11 No, they were about to go to space, there is no heaven, no God. Only science.
oOToStopANightmareOo 3 months ago
@oOToStopANightmareOo yes, i agree they were about to go to space and i believe in science, but i also believe in God.
caraxamage 3 months ago 3
@oOToStopANightmareOo you do know that the Bible talks about things that scientists..."discovered"...such as air having weight...and the world not being a square and space being empty and the earth not having anything hold it up right?
UnadvisableCloud 3 months ago
oooohhh very graphic report
koniditsa 3 months ago
May Allah Almighty keep them safe in paradise!
MisterSunson 3 months ago
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sonofhimmler1 3 months ago
@sonofhimmler1 you're sick man
luv2sing611 3 months ago
They are all in Heaven now
xhemexx 3 months ago 2
@xhemexx they were almost in heaven but they crashed and fell back to earth
eviltube1111 3 months ago
If they had a check with a satellite they would have seen the hole but unfortunately no due diligence was done and they were thus doomed to die because some administrators wanted to save a few bucks.
PicklesMcGiggles 3 months ago
where do i find video or docu of what happens exactly to them?
and yes i want to know exact what happens tu humanys when plane breakes appart, im very interested in.....
and
1) they made public job, they got payed well, for what they doin,AND they knew the risk..
2) why hide import information, on earth there are enough people, with ing., who are interested what happens to them,
3) also how they think spacesiut can safe them, talk about securitysystems, why they have failed etc...
Berndaustria 3 months ago
why are they closing there helmets at landing procedure are they counting on to leave the cockpit, in emergency?
what did astronauts do in this moments in their fire-vacum-suits?
leaveing cockpit?
theories about spacejumps..., did they try to leave cockpit for spacejump????
que?
Berndaustria 3 months ago
@Berndaustria
Placing a body into a slipstream at 500 mph causes massive trauma - broken hips, skulls, arms and legs - as well as strips all of the clothing from your body.
At 14,000 mph the astronauts would have been shredded. If they were still conscious and had their visor down as soon as the orbiter broke up the spinning would have ejected them out of the orbiter. That instant they would die from the acceleration, the g-forces, the heat and trauma. It would have been nearly instant.
Knepperify1 3 months ago
@Knepperify1 500 mph? Ever hear of the guy who ejected from an SR-71 at Mach 3? He got a bunch of bumps and bruises, his suit remained intact and he survived.
scooby1971 1 month ago
@scooby1971 The determination of how the crew died was changed because of later evidence recovered from the debris that took some time to figure out. The crew was subject to Mach 12 winds where their suits shredded and burned. The partial pressure suit only works if it was fully donned. Many of the crew were behind the time line in donning their entire suit. One didnt even have the helmet on yet.
amgen52 1 month ago
@amgen52 That's nothing really new. I'm aware of that information and I think it may have been in the official report. What I was saying is that if you look at the official report, the sections that describe what happened to the crew has been removed from the officially published report. Only the astronauts families and people inside of NASA familiar with the investigation saw the details of how the crew may have suffered during the break up.
scooby1971 1 month ago
@amgen52 Yep, just re-read the section that contained the information about what the crew experienced and the report does state that 6 of the 7 crew members had their helmets on.
scooby1971 1 month ago
@scooby1971 Understand. Why would anyone give grusome details of that.
amgen52 1 month ago
@scooby1971 There is a major difference between Mach 3 and 17,000 mph of a shuttle re-entry. The shuttle is not a airplane. If something goes wrong, the crew is going to die, suits and restraints are irrelevant. It was found that the commander of the Challenger hit the emergency detach system. The explosion destroyed the shuttle just the same. It was a high risk system. The crews knew it going in, as did anyone who looked at it for what it was.
GunBroker100 3 weeks ago
@GunBroker100 Emergency detach system. Are you for real?
amgen52 3 weeks ago
@amgen52 Quite real. The shuttle could be detached from the boosters and main fuel tank by the commander,( the large metal thing between the solid rocket boosters), in an emergency. The same system that is used to release the tank once the engine burn sequence is complete? Ring any bells? They don't drag the tank around the whole flight. Same system, just used to get away in an emergency. That way it could come back, provided it isn't after reaching the point of "no return".
GunBroker100 3 weeks ago
@GunBroker100 Its your wording. No such nomenclature called Emergency Detach System. Yes there are 2 toggle switches and 2 buttons on panel C2. Either the CDR or the pilot can get to these. These are in auto during normal flight. They can switch them to manual and release them if req. I've moved them many times myself during test with the crews. I'm very familiar with orbiter ops but large metal thing?
amgen52 3 weeks ago
@amgen52 Yeah, you know, the main liquid hydrogen fuel tank the orbiter and SRB's are attached to? So you must work for NASA, the JPL or one of the myriad contractors. Congrats. But the fact remains in the event of an emergency, and provided they have the time, they can release the shuttle from the assembly. No matter what label you stick on it. They also have an ejection system as I understand it. But hey, you're apparently a rocket scientist. I'm sure you'll correct me, if I'm wrong.
GunBroker100 3 weeks ago
@GunBroker100 Yes, the crew can separate the SRB's or the orbiter from the tank manually if req. In a controlled abort. The ejection system consist of giving each of them a parachute and an escape pole attached to the middeck ceiling.The hatch is blown, the pole is extended (by spring) and they hook them selves to the pole and jump. The poles purpose is to throw them clear of the delta wing. This all has to be done at level controlled flight.
amgen52 3 weeks ago
@amgen52 So, we come back, at last, to my original assertion. It remained until the last flight an experimental and hazardous means of transport. And a serious problem will mean the death of the astronauts. All that to get back were we started.
GunBroker100 3 weeks ago
@GunBroker100 Thats funny. I dont know if I read your original assertion. But every rocket launch is dangerous & hazardous. There will be many more accidents over the years to come by govts. & private companies. The fact that the shuttle carried 7 crewman normally made the death toll high. If Nasa had a blank check to design the shuttle, I'm sure it would have turned out different. The design was dictated by politicians with a budget, the Air Force, DOD etc.
amgen52 3 weeks ago
@amgen52 It probably wasn't but one of the other posters then. I commented about people freaking out when bad things happen like Columbia. And pointed out this was nothing like boarding an airliner, that it was a very hazardous proposition, and bad things happen sometimes. Man, you'd of thought a liked their dog or something. I still consider the shuttle one of man kinds greatest achievements, along with Hubble & the SR-71, both ended by much lesser politicians. But just me, I guess.
GunBroker100 3 weeks ago
@GunBroker100 Should have kicked their dog.
GunBroker100 3 weeks ago
@GunBroker100 Agree with you. Aircraft have flowm millions of flights. They have worked out the kinks. Space flight is a thousand times more demanding and only a few hundred have been launched worldwide. Its costly and right on the edge of physics and what man can do. After a few thousand more flights, it will be old hat....
amgen52 3 weeks ago
@amgen52 Given the variables and conditions under which these craft were launched, I'm honestly amazed there weren't more problems. Even the tried and true airliner has problems and crashes, so with it's safety record, the shuttle is a marvel. cancelling the shuttle was, in my view, a huge mistake. A decision come to by short sighted and lesser politicians. Which I could do happily without. The sooner our space program is back on track, the better.
GunBroker100 3 weeks ago
@GunBroker100 I think the reason the shuttle program was canceled was simply because of money. I remember when these things were on the "drawing board" back in about 1968. NASA said space travel would become commonplace, and these things would become cost effective by launching satellites etc. They never became cost effective and they have now become obsolete. The amount of science they can gather is already known and orbital space flight is no longer necessary.
clintonearlwalker 3 weeks ago
@clintonearlwalker Yeah, me too. But I remember by this time everyone was supposed to have flying cars too. Now, it's time to construct a ship in orbit that can be used for exploring the solar system. "We have the technology", to borrow from an old T.V. show. As much money as politicians waste on completely stupid stuff, you'd think they could figure out space is still important. It's time to return to the moon and beyond.
GunBroker100 3 weeks ago
@GunBroker100 Actually, I think the problem is we don't have the technology. It takes months to get a vehicle to Mars, that presents all types of problems for manned vehicles. Couple that with the fact that unmanned vehicles, Earth bound sensors, or orbital probes like Hubble can get nearly the same amount of info for 10 times cheaper or more without the risk of human death as in Columbia, Challenger, Apollo 1 etc.
clintonearlwalker 3 weeks ago
@Berndaustria
The speed at that point was about 14,000 mph. Nose up, 41°angle, when the left wing broke up and hydraulics were lost the orbiter would begin to violently spin at a rate far in excess for crew survivability. The g-forces would have quickly blacked out all of the crew. When the master alarm sounded, most would have lowered and locked their visors but that wasn't going to help. A few seconds later they pass out, then are ejected.
At that velocity they would be killed instantly.
Knepperify1 3 months ago
If they had a check with a satellite they would have seen the hole but unfortunately no due diligence was done and they were thus doomed to die because some administrators wanted to save a few bucks.
PicklesMcGiggles 3 months ago
how could they miss the hole on the shuttle during there operations in space?!
XmojotronX 3 months ago
@XmojotronX There is nothing that allows them to look at the wings while they are in orbit nor did they have any reason to want to examine them. The crew was not aware that the shuttle had any life threatening damage, but had they known there would have been procedures to determine what to do. You can't see the wings of the shuttle from inside the shuttle. The ONLY possible way to examining them would be to use the robotic arm with the camera attached.
Relativisticism 3 months ago
@XmojotronX The cameras in the payload bay could not see it. The crew from the crew compartment could not see it. Maybe if a space walk was done they would have found it.
aimhigh59 3 months ago
@40390576 Maybe Misunderstanding...I wasn't saying NASA shouldn't release information but I was talking about some media outlets that were hypocritical. Many reported that it was "controversial" and "unnecessary" for the pilots graphic detail of their individual painful deaths to be published.....Then they go into the same graphic detail.
I am a member of a gore website and this doesn't even compared to their fucked up shit, but youtube may not be the best place for people being killed.
Orangebike666 4 months ago
Seat restraints, helmets and space suits? The fucking shuttle disintegrated, what the hell would they do ?
Nautilus1972 4 months ago 96
@Nautilus1972 Yes. At that speed 90% of the heat on the outside of the shuttle is caused not by friction, but by the compression of the very thin air! What would such compression do to a human body?
shakeAbooty88 1 month ago
@Nautilus1972 they would have protected them against the trauma, although they may have already been dead or died soon after. Don't talk as if you know what the fuck happened
abarai2007 1 month ago
probably ufos shot at it
TheSaltysack 4 months ago
Where are the fucking graphic details!?!??! Fuck this gay video
MisterDanceMachine 4 months ago
@MisterDanceMachine jeez, morbid much?
arrdvark3 4 months ago
I don't want to know how they died, but I think the title is misleading
MisterDanceMachine 4 months ago
@ fatal events in just over 100 shuttle launches. 1 every fifty, counting all the precautions made. Skydiving(excluding base jumping) results in a fatality about every 25-50k jumps-including jumpers who take chances. This suggests you would have been 500-maybe even 1000 times more likely to be killed going up in the space shuttle than jumping out of an airplane. Aborting a launch-once in the air-will involve the same sacrifice as going into orbit,sans the benefits thereof.
fubleduck 4 months ago
What didn't work well? If you're 38 miles above the ground going thousands of miles an hour, your suit doesn't mean dink. If your vehicle breaks apart you're going to die.
aluisious 4 months ago
vaporized... Graphic?? No, it's like "PFFFFF" *gone* They never saw it coming.
periesicsd 4 months ago
Sounds like an assassination and subsequent cover up.
cyclos12 4 months ago
@cyclos12 Sounds like a spacecraft subject to enormous amounts of kinetic energy got damaged on take off. Ever watch NASA contractors test their prototypes? There are thousands of factors that can contribute to crashes, even when things are small and extremely simplified.
glukaschlok 4 months ago
@cyclos12 Please don't reproduce.
NeededBabyCakez 4 months ago
@cyclos12 hmmmmm that would sound pretty convincing if it was someone political, but when I think about it these astronauts pretty much had nothing to reveal, but you can never know right?
juju6018 4 months ago
@cyclos12 Somebody should have covered up your dads cock.
aluisious 4 months ago
NASA = Never A Straight Answer or at least that's what I've heard. I'm aware that accidents can happen at anytime,and this was indeed tragic, but those shuttles were worn out despite the rigorous efforts to maintain them. It's actually,considering the variables involved, a miracle only 2 shuttles were lost over that span of time.I hope to see the space program re-engaged in my lifetime.It's the last frontier and holds limitless possibilities for the future & more importantly us as a species.
splurging247 4 months ago
@splurging247 Shuttles worn out ? Were you a mechanic or engineer that worked on them ?
aimhigh59 4 months ago
A/P.... Starts off with a report that seems to chastise the release of graphic detailed information to the public... but then goes into graphic detailed information. I just don't see the point. The families were already having enough trouble and what is the point of talking about the information unless you have some reason have people turn in anger to the administration. Going into space is dangerous.
Orangebike666 4 months ago
Uh, seat restraints are an issue? And if they had held? What then.
oracle2world 4 months ago
@oracle2world It would have kept them alive long enough for something else to kill them.
scooby1971 1 month ago
@40390576 they need to stay the fuck out of space. stay on earth and stop wasting money on nasa.
AlcoholicSemenStain2 4 months ago
@AlcoholicSemenStain2 Yea, learning about the universe we live in is such a waste of money. I saw your other comments. You called 9/11 funny. You must be a very sick sociopath. You belong in an asylum
AlecFilmz 4 months ago
@AlecFilmz US&A was the only country that though 9/11 was sad. You should talk to more people OUT your country.
AlcoholicSemenStain2 4 months ago
@AlcoholicSemenStain2 Oh yea ok. Because Russia, Australia, Britain, China, and all of our allies and the other 1st world countries don't count right? Your a fuckin moron. Just because your probably part of a radical hate group doesnt mean other ppl are. You should talk to sane ppl. You know, the ones that don't walk into crowded squares with dynamite up their ass an blow them selves up for allah. Fuck you and have a nice day.
AlecFilmz 4 months ago
They died of lethal trauma? Who would have guesed.
Spindry96 4 months ago
They were dead long before they hit the ground...or more accurately what was left of them when they hit the ground. I think they found a hip and part of a leg bone somewhere. The temperatures and deceleration would have been beyond anything you can imagine, and the moment the ship broke up, they were dead in seconds.
Wombat1965 4 months ago 2
Nasa confirms that they died on ground impact...so those poor astronauts were stuck in the burning shuttle till it hit the ground
anger154 4 months ago
@anger154
No, the g-forces of the shuttle spinning as the left wing broke up would have been far beyond what humans can tolerate and survive. The shuttle would have begun to spin, the seats, restraints, helmets and suits would have come loose, the astronauts would then have impacted the inside of the cabin at violent and fatal velocities.
Only later would they have been ejected into the slipstream.
Then their bodies (they would have been dead) would have mostly burned up upon re-entry.
Knepperify1 4 months ago
That's not true the accident happened because of a cheap O ring a simple cheap O ring.
vampov 4 months ago
@vampov You have the wrong accident...
aimhigh59 4 months ago
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Ok i understand that these happen and i feel bad... BUT STILL FUCK OBAMA FOR CANCELING THE SPACE PROGRAM, NOW WERE WORKING WITH THE FUCKING RUSSIANS? THIS STARTED TO TRY TO BEAT THEM IN SPACE TECHNOLOGY!
Thumbs up ig you think that obamas an ass!
TaskForce036 4 months ago
@TaskForce036 Thumbs down. We have more important things to worry about here on earth, and we've already beaten Russia. We were on the Moon first.
BlatantlyBritt 4 months ago
@TaskForce036 You're an ignorant moron
solidraiden242 4 months ago
@TaskForce036 We had no money for the space program any more. And this isn't the past, Russia is now our ally and a valued one at that. Just because we had a little competition with them back then doesn't mean we have to resent them now. Teaming up with the second best space program in the world was an excellent idea
pringlesguy1 4 months ago
RIP. There has got to be better ways to make Space Rockets safer.
tnguyen318 4 months ago
r.i.p.
kotsos70 4 months ago
I wanna read the 400 page report.
ronaldli5 5 months ago
@40390576 Why does this offend you so much? Are you one of those people who desperately runs around, looking for some mistake to correct so evveryone will know how smart you are?
Stillwater900 5 months ago
@40390576 God, who fuckin' cares? Don't you have something better to do?
Stillwater900 5 months ago
@40390576 Thats PURE speculation. I think I remember John Lear saying something about this too actually. I don't remember which space shuttle he said, but the guy was yelling things like You motherfuckers, you killed us, I told you so etc etc something like that. An old friend of mine went to college with a guy who went on to go pretty high in NASA, and he overheard the transmission. You can speculate all you want, but thats what I was told.
Stillwater900 5 months ago
@Stillwater900 You were lied to because the entire flight communication between the shuttle and mission control was transmitted live on NASA TV and if something had been said to that effect, we would all know it.
scooby1971 1 month ago
@40390576 Yeah, none that was made public. Gosh, people always assume that they told every single thing... A friend of mine heard that from someone who worked on transmissions. I forget the details, it was the guy who was a but of an outcast or something, was real critical of the flight.
Stillwater900 5 months ago
@mohammedmahdi1975 Shut the fuck up
you fucking dumb ass, there is no allah and there is no curse you fucking retard.
C1Era 5 months ago
well lets fix up those seat belts and space suits. Take two and action!
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dimesach 5 months ago
@dimesach you are exactly why so many people hate america, i spit on your filthy mind
SnakeSalmon8izback 4 months ago
So if they'd had better seatbelts, they'd have been okay?
This is like the guy who says "Ifs unacceptable that the air conditioner wasn't performing when their ship crashed into the sun".
zarniwooop 5 months ago
hmmmmm let me see it blows up in the middle of the air when they break the sound barrier would they be knocked out or dead i recon they would be dead im sorry to say that i know its hard but what idiot thinks that they would be alive after it blowed up in the middle of the air
scream18ify 5 months ago
@scream18ify It didnt blow up but broke apart. They were not going thru a sound barrier. They were going Mach 12 at the time. The crew module separated before it broke apart and burned as well. Crew was alive about a minute or two before they parished.
aimhigh59 5 months ago
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It would "not" be unlike the usa-tards to:
1. Sacrifice/kill their own for the sake of something (in the case of the columbia deaths, for more funding).
OR
2. The apollo deaths of Gus Grissom, Ed White, Roger Chaffee to eliminate Grissom's threat to expose all the faked moon landings.
OR
3. The false flag 911 inside job used as a pretext to steal middle east resources in an attempt to save the doomed u.s. economy (but too little, too late, we hope).
AND ON, AND ON, AND ON.
Ironoff 5 months ago
@Ironoff What's it like being a complete loon?
zarniwooop 5 months ago
hey people have to die then we learn our mistakes
MultiSubzero666 5 months ago
@MultiSubzero666 ASSHOLER
Ironoff 5 months ago
JESUS DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!
Zander101084 5 months ago
The life can be so wrong with us! Why ? They worked so hard to be an astronaut, to fly to the space. And then.. :/
RIP..
SyronNewChannel 5 months ago
kalpna all indian are love and proud on u......
tptpatel5 5 months ago
If you are a truth seeker, search "Truth Contest" in Google and click on the 1st result, then open The Present and read what it says. Everyone needs to see this. The Present will turn this world right-side up if it reaches enough people. You will see what I mean when you read the first page.
vividDC 5 months ago
it dont seem like its been that many years since that happened but any how very sad
coldestghost 5 months ago
I heard they were alive until they hit the water...
Stillwater900 5 months ago
@Stillwater900 that was the Challenger crew..the parts of Columbia were found in Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana I think..The crew died a few seconds after the accident due to the violent spinning of the cabin, lack of oxygen and the heat of reentry
marcelkade 5 months ago
@marcelkade God, I heard that they knew they were going die for a few seconds, and one of the men was yelling You killed us you motherfuckers I told you so!! Hell of a way to die though
Stillwater900 5 months ago
@Stillwater900 You are wrong and are thinking about Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov - Soyuz 1 ////// you can look it up on youtube and read his storyand hear the recordings its called death of a cosmonaut-soyuz-1 cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov. Columbia crew never had a chance to say any last words..
billy3rdkill0311 5 months ago
@billy3rdkill0311 No no, this was one of our missions, the story seems similar though. I'm not a space buff, it might have been the other one that blew up.
Stillwater900 5 months ago
@Stillwater900 I dont want to sound like a ass but you are still wrong the Challengers last radio contact was the comander saying going full Throttle. sorry my friend the ony person to tell ground control that they killed him was vlad. However a Several engineers—most notably Roger Boisjoly did not want challenger to lift off do to the o-rings/cold weather and he said you are sending them to their fucking deaths and than he walked out..maybe thats what you are thinking about ;)
billy3rdkill0311 5 months ago
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I think that the Indian (dot head) cunt ate too much curry at dinner the night before. She farted or qweefed out some seriously epic curry farts which fried the RCS's printed circuit boards.
AZCopperMiner 5 months ago
@AZCopperMiner Are you 5 years old? You must be to find that funny.
SuzLa1 5 months ago
I wonder if some of them were conscious while flying through the skies with 1000kph #LOL
sooperfukker 5 months ago
@sooperfukker you know what's even more funny? how desprite you are to get attention #LOL
Zander101084 5 months ago
@Zander101084 Whow whowwww.. no reason to send me homosex messages via PM #FAIL
sooperfukker 5 months ago
wtf ?? how on earth wld these help on a craft fkn blowing up????
kingdrewew 5 months ago
jebać Nasę mam nadzieję że Chińczycy ich zjedzą!.
Tupaniify 5 months ago
Thinking about it, a repair mission might off been possible with another shuttle using its robotic arm to carry an astronaut with heat resistant carbon/kelver sheets and epoxy resin. Was unaware they were carrying space suits, but EVAing 7 astronauts without docking gear, untrained in EVA , with 5 hour suit up time, no known procedure notes, 7 return seats etc etc would of probably resulted in the loss of 9 lives and 2 Orbiters.
MENOTYOUism 5 months ago
NASA are such liars. They still haven't come clear on how they determined one of the tiles were damaged--only by assumption. Of course, they needed a reason for something they couldn't explain what really happened. 2/3 of Columbia is still missing, geniuses...
vseae15o 6 months ago
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@vseae15o They have details. They SAW a chunk of foam hit the leading edge of the wing. They SAW sensors in the LEFT WING go out as the Shuttle descended. 1+1 still equals 2.
Mozart1220 6 months ago
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@vseae15o They have details. They SAW a chunk of foam hit the leading edge of the wing. They SAW sensors in the LEFT WING go out as the Shuttle descended. 1 plus1 still equals 2.
Mozart1220 6 months ago
@vseae15o "They still haven't come clear on how they determined one of the tiles were damaged"
Have you read the CAIB report? They used telemetry to determine the path of the plasma, splatter patterns on recovered debris, location and quantity of debris, and engineering data recorded onboard. Combined, this conclusively demonstrated damage in the same area as the foam strike.
Tests on RCC demonstrated that a foam strike could cause catastrophic damage.
They've been quite clear on this.
roamingcroat 5 months ago
@roamingcroat i'm sure not many has seen the report or the data recordings onboard the shuttle. if i was part of the commission to write that CAIB "factoid" report I would make damn sure that those astronauts' death were very conclusive and it was not due to any stupid mistakes on behalf of NASA. Do you believe all things people say?
vseae15o 5 months ago
@vseae15o If you were a professional and you want to know precisely how the accident occurred, then you would make sure the report had every last detail,which it does.I've read the report and it is very detailed and shows that the destruction of Columbia began with a hole in the wing at the location of RCC panel 8. The report also details how the astronauts died as well and there is the possibility that they were alive, but unconscious up until the destruction of the crew compartment
scooby1971 5 months ago
@vseae15o The determination of how the crew died was actually in the original report but was later redacted before it was published. Only the astronauts families were given the unredacted report so they're the only ones outside of NASA who know the details of their deaths.
scooby1971 1 month ago
@vseae15o Tiles had nothing to do with this accident. You're thinking RCC panels I hope. The RCC panel hit can be seen in launch video. Thats what started the investigation on orbit in the 1st place. One thing the public has not seen is the re-building of the fwd part of the wing. There is clearly a pattern. You can clearly see molten metal being burned away and splattering on the wing, fuselage and tail in the air stream of the RCC panel which had the hole.
aimhigh59 5 months ago