wow great footage, and i dont think they were alone that day, u can see like an object flying near the shuttle and then like a purple light beam thing that flashes in the direction of the shuttle and then the shuttle is gone, i think something shot it down. just my opinion, bless those aboard.
I may be posting a dumbass question, but it looks like the shuttle is re-entering sideways? 0:12 shows the first trail, and in orientation it looks as if the nose and tail of the shuttle are perpendicular to the trail, nose pointed away from the cameras perspective.
To all the conspiracy theorists in the comment section give it a rest, it was a tragic accident and you shame the memory of those astronauts by trying to blame the goverment of the country they served.
EXACTLY WHAT THE FUCK IS that little white dot a bit left of the shuttle before and when the main debris blast? IT ZOOMS AWAY like a SPACESHIP or something. ANYONE?!?!?!
i work for nasa. for all you people who think that a ufo was up when the shuttle was landing. thats what a explosion looks like in the exosphere. fucken dumbasss
@lostindiancamp Actually they did know that the shuttle would most likely disintegrate during reentry. They had about a 10% chance of surviving and had no choice but to accept those odds. R.I.P
Wow, birds are amazing, they could record such an amazing event without making any shrieks of fear or terror whatsoever.
Hats off to those birds for capturing it live, I could never for a million years be able to do that: being in the place, in the right moment, with the right equipment!
I saw this video an hour after it happened and taped it. As you can see at 0:08 your looking at the rear section of the shuttle. but its moving through the atmosphere from right to left. in other words the shuttle is in a sideways motion. Normally we should see the left side of the shuttle, not its rear. Something went wrong in its S-Turns to slow the craft down. Also you will see something to the right of the shot if you continue the video. looks like the vertical stabilizer was torn off.
Reading the Columbia Disaster Report: Is your video the one that they use in the Vehicle Failure Assessment, showing then the vehicle actually lost control (2.2-1 - 2.2-3)? Just curious.
amazing peps still get upset. a peice of foam broke off the solid fuel thingy and hit the wing. nasa knew about it but ignored it. the wing got too hot on re-entry and broke up, then u have a big chunk of metal flying to the ground. this vid i suspect shows the wing breaking up. the rest of the shuttle and crew (still alive) caries on for a bit..
i think when u zoomed in on it u caught it spinning out of control n then u zoomed out n then it disinagrated or blew up but if u were too keep the zoom on it u would of got it blowing up
Even after all these years have gone by, this is still heartbreaking to watch. Knowing that those astronauts had no idea their lives were in danger until the ship started breaking apart. I just hope they died quickly and as painlessly as possible.
does anyone see what could be a ufo speeding up really quick and then slowing down to fly in semi-formation? to the left there is a bright light that occurs before the shuttle breaks up. why would this be there? i don't understand what it could be
I was in a crowd of like 20 and none of us even realized what it was we called it in as a plane crash.We all went to eat breakfast and heard them talking on the radio about losing comm with a space ship.
@smoothcriminalaaron, the shuttle was approx. 38 miles from the ground when it broke up. As for the rest, there was a sonic boom as it entered our atmosphere, what you heard was NOT the shuttle exploding. It didn't explode. It fell apart. Basically disintegrated due to the extreme heat caused by friction and such low atmospheric pressure. Some vital tiles on the left wing were damaged during the launch.
What happened was that they came in too fast. Because it was breaking into Earth's atmosphere, it became hot around the outside. Since it was going too fast, it got too hot, and ripped the thing appart.
@askadan ... Did u post that there was no explosion! If u made this video you should know that there was a loud sonic boom felt all throughout East Texas. It was so loud and was felt so strong that it actually woke up people from their sleep! People got up and went outside to see if something had fallen on the roof of their homes! Others thought it was a small earthquake. Others thought it was a train. I say this because I was there. So please if u don't know or aren't sure of something just sa
There is a difference between a sonic boom and an explosion. There were many sonic booms. There were as many sonic booms as there were pieces of shuttle flying overhead. That's why it sounded like very loud thunder. As far as an"explosion", like I said before, the shuttle did not explode. It did however break up into thousands of pieces due to the force of the wind on areas of the shuttle that were not designed to withstand that type of force.
no youre wrong, the shuttle broke up, it would no longer be traveling faster than sound.. just because its a disaster and the shuttle "exploded" (which it didnt), that doesn't mean theres some intense crazy louder than normal sonic boom.
Living in California, the shuttle has flown in many times due to the weather in flordia, trust me, sonic booms from the shuttle from that far away are nothing. Literally thunder is worse
@ISIDRO123456 The shuttle didn't explode. From what I remember at the time, one or several of the black tiles that lines the underside of the shuttle--which are designed to protect the vehicle from the immense heat of re-entry--broke off during the shuttle's launch, exposing a part of the underside and leaving it vulnerable. Upon re-entry the exposed portion of the vehicle was damaged, and the resulting pressures and heat caused the ship to disintegrate. From what I recall.
@ISIDRO123456 A sonic boom is not an explosion. "So please if u don't know or aren't sure of something just sa" — maybe you should heed your own warnings, genius.
@ISIDRO123456 I live in east texas and i woke up to my bed vibrating two feet towards my door and thought the train derailed and it was coming towards my house right to my window.. it was that loud and intense.. i live like 4 miles from the train at that.. i will never forget that sound.. as im typing this i just now see your comment mentioning "others thought it was a train"..wow.
So sad. To think that this coming Tuesday will mark the 8th anniversary of this tragedy. May all those who perished onboard rest in peace. And my heart goes out to the families. =(
I wasn't exactly sure of what I was seeing at the time, but I knew it looked totally different than the night time re-entries I had recorded in the past. Once I went inside I heard and felt the sonic booms. I had never heard a sonic boom from any other re-entry. I guess I just couldn't accept or believe what I had just witnessed and recorded. I mean, what are the odds of capturing something like that on video?
@ASKADAN Thank you, Askadan, for the respect you showed in creating and sharing this video with NASA and on YouTube. I'm an aerospace engineer. How long after Columbia passed overhead do you estimate you heard and felt the sonic booms?
I don't know if you were properly thanked or not, but I thank you. I remember this video as one of the first that I had received. The birds chirping and all. Again Than k you very much!
There was a person from NASA who kept me updated and explained to me how the analysis of my video was going and what the team was finding out about it. Was that you?
I remember setting up a web site with still photos from the video so the experts at NASA could see parts of it while my video was in transit. That was before the YouTube days.
this must be one of the most extreme ways to die. they must have survive at least a minute or two from the point that they new things where flying off the shuttle. at least they had some long seconds of protection from their space suites. Just remember they found out later that even on the challenger disaster some of the astronauts had activated their backup emergancy life systems in their suits. Actualy the clash on the ocean killed them.
that freaks me out seeing that...i remember when the challenger blew up...i was in school watching it live and my dad was actually taking photos of it and photos of it blowin up...he was literally there and when he came home he was cryin and all...all the kids in my class were crying and freakin out...so were the teachers...sad day in nasa...my heart goes out 2 those families
looks to me that the zoomed in picture was a shot of the shuttle from rear to front. this would mean that it was coming in sideways (left side in the lead) . no wonder it ripped apart.
There are psychotics claiming that this is a flying saucer and not the space shuttle ROFLMAO.
They claim that the space shuttle does not produce shock waves during reentry:
watch?v=N9vtof0HoSM&feature=related
I need to start a UFO club with a focus on fundamental christianity and creationism. These nuts are walking wallets willing to shell out cash for people who support their crazy theories.
i remember i was in the second grade. we were watching the landing and when we heard about the disaster we were all upset. i remember some of the teachers crying later during lunch. sad day for the us spaceprogram and the world
@kennerfreak7 I was in 4th when the Challenger disaster occured. I can remember it being one of those moments of a bit more clarity and understanding on life.
how come you didn't say anything, weren't you freaked out, if it was me recording that i would have said oh my god, or o shit, even if i was by myself,
at 0:10, You will see a UFO-shaped like thingy if you make a close-up but actually I am seeing the below of the shuttle. And at the time, Columbia could be making a s-turn, and suddenly break up. Yep, so look closely at the shuttle.
I was in Florida watching cartoons and they cut into the very ending of one of the shows to get a live landing from the shuttle. Yeah, I saw Columbia happen live.
Did you know something was wrong while you were filming this? Great video by the way, but can I also ask how they knew the shuttle was facing the wrong side?
I'm only getting the first 6 seconds then the video stops! It's fully downloaded and the bar is red right the way along, but won't play beyond 6 seconds. Anybody else getting this?
That might have been caused by slightly uneven burning of the re entry engines used, entering in a slow side slipping movement. (like the RPM, but now horizontal).
Now the left wing catching all the re entry heat instead of the tilted nose, burning and failing, within seconds etc.
falling ice, and a damaged wing on take off, would not have been the cause, in that case.
In your first shot, it looks to me, as if the tailfin has folded over/ collapsed to the right.
If so, that might have been the result of a sideways re-entry, first atmospheric pressure pushing it over making the shuttle unsteerable. Might be the first piece of debris seen.
In your first shot, it looks to me, as if the tailfin has folded over/ collapsed to the right.
If so, that might have been the result of a sideways re-entry, first atmospheric pressure pushing it over making the shuttle unsteerable. Might be the first piece of debris seen.
That might have been caused by slightly uneven burning of the re-entry engines used, entering in a slow side slipping movement. (like the RPM, but now horizontal).
btw, for those who dont know why it crashed, the reason was because a small piece of the foam insulate broke off and hit the wing, which at speeds in the 1000s, caused a small hole in the wing. Thus, when re-entering the earth in the stratosphere when it went through the blackout period (a stage when the ship enters a layer of superheated plasma) the plasma made its way in causing the shil to literally disintegrate. And if you dont believe me, my cousin worked in NASA when it happened.
This video actually refutes NASA's claim in it's final report that the Shuttle broke up while tumbling out of control. At 0:10 into the video, the zoom shows the Shuttle facing away from the camera, sliding steadily to its left. A few seconds later it begins to disintegrate. Why would NASA iinsist it was tuumbling when this video proves it was not?
@Jose04811 When the orbiter broke up the crew compartment depressurised so quickly that none of the crew had time to close their visors. An escape pod, such as the whole crew compartment being ejected, was rejected during design because it would have added too much weight to the Orbiter. Bale-out at the high altitude and hypersonic speeds at which Columbia broke up would not be survivable. There is a bale-out option for Shuttle crews, but only at sub-sonic speeds.
@Jose04811@Jose04811 Columbia did have ejection seats for STS-1 through to STS-4 because they were test flights. When the shuttle became operational the seats were removed to save weight and add more crew members. An emergency escape was possible but only after re-entry and was used in a contingency abort only. Basically, if there was no chance of the shuttle making a safe landing the crew would bail out via the side hatch, down a pole away from the wing and parachute down.
@Jose04811 Columbia was travelling at Mach 19 and 200,000 ft high when the break up occured. She was still re-entering. Bail out would have been impossible.
It looks as though the shuttle was moving away and the all of a sudden it moved to the left past the tree, do you reckon it might have been blown that way or am i seeing it wrong? lol
thanks ASKADAN for uplading this video, i know how frusturating it will be when lot of jerks sayin its not real with some foolish thoughts! but i really appreciate the time you are putting and still explaining things to people out there!
By the time it finished re-entry, the vehicle was no longer intact, therefore nothing left to crash. The debris field stretched across SE Texas across the Louisiana st. line at which point most concentrated, tailing off past Alexandria, LA. Body parts, badly burned, were recovered, and in the end, remains of all 7 astronauts were identified. A horrible way to go.
My questions are simple. If this was going on while being recorded by a person thern why is there no reaction to what was being seen? I would assume the person was intrested in the space shuttle but did not seem shocked by what was happening. wierd. also why did the trail begin just after the strange anomalie which flew towards it was seen. right after that happened the trail of smoke started. wierd. This video also appears to be edited.
Tiles were doing fine until the wing fell off. Tiles have never been an issue on the shuttlefor years. In the early days orbiters landed with many tiles missing and hundreds of pot marks from debris. Tiles coming off has not been an issue for 20 years or so. The Columbia accident was not caused by tiles.
some tiles were knocked off when ice hit them during launch. these tiles were right in the middle of one of the hot spots on the wing. the wing burned from the inside out once they started re-entry. this is something that has been documented and proved by nasa, u can find video of the launch were u can clearly see chunks of ice falling off the fuel tank and hitting the wing. this is something that has never happened b4 and was not even noticed at first.
I've seen the video many times, but I never realized how quickly the shuttle disintegrated. From the beginning of the video, which shows an anomaly, to the end, which shows the complete fragmentation of the shuttle. While heating of the shuttle took time, the actual break apart was rather quick. This is proven in the NASA communications, which was lost quickly as well.
I lived in Wills Point,Texas at the time,I remember sitting inside a travel trailer,I didn't know it was landing that day,Ithere was an explosion noise,but it turns out that each piece of the shuttle broke the sound barrier,it shook my trailer like a dinamite blast....I stepped out ,but saw nothing,I lived under the normal landing route to Florida,I had watched the Shuttle many times on the same route,I didn't know it crashed until I drove into Canton,Tex,not far from the crash location,
There wasnt an explosion as the others said, but the noise this thing made as it went over was unreal, it shook our windows and rattled things of counters and tables. We had the a large chunk of the nose section land about 11 miles away from us in between two highways, made a fairly large dent/hole in the ground where it hit. They also found 1-2 helmets right around here. Very tragic, God bless them.
Did you know something was wrong when you zoomed in the first time?
redshark618 2 months ago
best video of something on youtube without any stupid music or talking or bad camera work, good job...RIP Shuttle Crew
tomdabom713 3 months ago
soyuz
alexgrinkov 5 months ago
wow great footage, and i dont think they were alone that day, u can see like an object flying near the shuttle and then like a purple light beam thing that flashes in the direction of the shuttle and then the shuttle is gone, i think something shot it down. just my opinion, bless those aboard.
mary312008 5 months ago
You recorded this and got the devastation?
levelat350 5 months ago
I may be posting a dumbass question, but it looks like the shuttle is re-entering sideways? 0:12 shows the first trail, and in orientation it looks as if the nose and tail of the shuttle are perpendicular to the trail, nose pointed away from the cameras perspective.
wasitthat 5 months ago
It was no accident , if you would like to understand the truth , then contact me.
moya138 5 months ago
Why didnt you move around that BLOODY TREE!
steveos111 5 months ago
I remember when this happened a little.
AccessDenied55 6 months ago
When you zoom in at the beginning what exactly is that showing us?
Hype3rshadow 6 months ago
when you saw that did you know somthing happend,because you seem so calm
IOWAhawkeyesful 6 months ago
Wouldn't the image of the shuttle appearing to be facing the wrong way be due to the roll maneuvers from left to right as it slowed?
Elliottc26 6 months ago
To all the conspiracy theorists in the comment section give it a rest, it was a tragic accident and you shame the memory of those astronauts by trying to blame the goverment of the country they served.
CrashB111 6 months ago
EXACTLY WHAT THE FUCK IS that little white dot a bit left of the shuttle before and when the main debris blast? IT ZOOMS AWAY like a SPACESHIP or something. ANYONE?!?!?!
aqualobster 6 months ago
i work for nasa. for all you people who think that a ufo was up when the shuttle was landing. thats what a explosion looks like in the exosphere. fucken dumbasss
eatmyasshole1000 6 months ago
@lostindiancamp Actually they did know that the shuttle would most likely disintegrate during reentry. They had about a 10% chance of surviving and had no choice but to accept those odds. R.I.P
HarlequinBuckeye 6 months ago
Wow, birds are amazing, they could record such an amazing event without making any shrieks of fear or terror whatsoever.
Hats off to those birds for capturing it live, I could never for a million years be able to do that: being in the place, in the right moment, with the right equipment!
archiver1andiw 6 months ago
I was 19 when this happened.... shocked is an understatement....
redneckhottie88 6 months ago
I was 19 when this happened.... o boy did I cry....
redneckhottie88 6 months ago
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friendz1402 6 months ago
The shuttle was not up there alone. If YOU can't see the other object, you are a mindless drone. R.I.P. to the crew of Columbia. God be with them.
elgetonegro 7 months ago
o my gosh
2GJosh 7 months ago
I saw this video an hour after it happened and taped it. As you can see at 0:08 your looking at the rear section of the shuttle. but its moving through the atmosphere from right to left. in other words the shuttle is in a sideways motion. Normally we should see the left side of the shuttle, not its rear. Something went wrong in its S-Turns to slow the craft down. Also you will see something to the right of the shot if you continue the video. looks like the vertical stabilizer was torn off.
flyin3mileshigh 7 months ago
00:07 - 00:10
Keep playing it back. What is that white smudge in the sky that appears for a second then disappears?
WeAreEl 7 months ago
@WeAreEl he zoomed in for a few seconds and zoomed back, you would know if u could read description next time.
tenacious1884 7 months ago
0:17 UFO
faraon2012 8 months ago
this is so sad every time i watch it.
gianellerosario 8 months ago
Reading the Columbia Disaster Report: Is your video the one that they use in the Vehicle Failure Assessment, showing then the vehicle actually lost control (2.2-1 - 2.2-3)? Just curious.
woodrax 8 months ago
I saw this video on Fox news!
ClubPenguinMovies123 8 months ago
at the time. i was at a grage sale. then i heard the super sonic boom. haveing lived near a air port. i thought it was a 747 bowing up or sumthing...
DjSplashx 8 months ago
isn't tom moir just a nub
lewis2461 8 months ago
amazing peps still get upset. a peice of foam broke off the solid fuel thingy and hit the wing. nasa knew about it but ignored it. the wing got too hot on re-entry and broke up, then u have a big chunk of metal flying to the ground. this vid i suspect shows the wing breaking up. the rest of the shuttle and crew (still alive) caries on for a bit..
tomcatvmp 8 months ago
i think when u zoomed in on it u caught it spinning out of control n then u zoomed out n then it disinagrated or blew up but if u were too keep the zoom on it u would of got it blowing up
musicman3005 9 months ago
That's trouble of some kind George
Pickuptruckdude 9 months ago
so is 0:10 the shuttle?
x2XtReMEx 9 months ago
Even after all these years have gone by, this is still heartbreaking to watch. Knowing that those astronauts had no idea their lives were in danger until the ship started breaking apart. I just hope they died quickly and as painlessly as possible.
lostindiancamp 10 months ago
@Brentsey ITS RIGHT THERE :09
jmanrox25 10 months ago
@Brentsey ITS RIGHT THERE
jmanrox25 10 months ago
What strikes me is how quiet it all is. And how "amazing timing" is mild.
cottagechskitty 10 months ago
how did you know where to look and what time just asking
speeder741 10 months ago
does anyone see what could be a ufo speeding up really quick and then slowing down to fly in semi-formation? to the left there is a bright light that occurs before the shuttle breaks up. why would this be there? i don't understand what it could be
flyboysgtv 10 months ago
@flyboysgtv It's a piece of shuttle. Stop trying to see UFOs EVERYWHERE.
MitkoChan 10 months ago
@flyboysgtv please tell me you're joking.
caseyphx 9 months ago
вечная память героям космонавтам
maxyshka 10 months ago
I was in a crowd of like 20 and none of us even realized what it was we called it in as a plane crash.We all went to eat breakfast and heard them talking on the radio about losing comm with a space ship.
isaiahlive 11 months ago
@smoothcriminalaaron, the shuttle was approx. 38 miles from the ground when it broke up. As for the rest, there was a sonic boom as it entered our atmosphere, what you heard was NOT the shuttle exploding. It didn't explode. It fell apart. Basically disintegrated due to the extreme heat caused by friction and such low atmospheric pressure. Some vital tiles on the left wing were damaged during the launch.
ParkAve315 11 months ago
@ParkAve315 No tiles were damaged on launch. Tiles had nothing to do with it.
aimhigh59 10 months ago
how weird, were you relaxing out in your house and enjoying your day?
it must have felt weird that you were witnessing history, sad history though....
joker0187 11 months ago
What happened was that they came in too fast. Because it was breaking into Earth's atmosphere, it became hot around the outside. Since it was going too fast, it got too hot, and ripped the thing appart.
EpicNoobBoyTV 11 months ago
@askadan ... Did u post that there was no explosion! If u made this video you should know that there was a loud sonic boom felt all throughout East Texas. It was so loud and was felt so strong that it actually woke up people from their sleep! People got up and went outside to see if something had fallen on the roof of their homes! Others thought it was a small earthquake. Others thought it was a train. I say this because I was there. So please if u don't know or aren't sure of something just sa
ISIDRO123456 11 months ago
@ISIDRO123456
There is a difference between a sonic boom and an explosion. There were many sonic booms. There were as many sonic booms as there were pieces of shuttle flying overhead. That's why it sounded like very loud thunder. As far as an"explosion", like I said before, the shuttle did not explode. It did however break up into thousands of pieces due to the force of the wind on areas of the shuttle that were not designed to withstand that type of force.
ASKADAN 11 months ago 23
@ISIDRO123456
no youre wrong, the shuttle broke up, it would no longer be traveling faster than sound.. just because its a disaster and the shuttle "exploded" (which it didnt), that doesn't mean theres some intense crazy louder than normal sonic boom.
Living in California, the shuttle has flown in many times due to the weather in flordia, trust me, sonic booms from the shuttle from that far away are nothing. Literally thunder is worse
RenoGregory 11 months ago
@ISIDRO123456 The shuttle didn't explode. From what I remember at the time, one or several of the black tiles that lines the underside of the shuttle--which are designed to protect the vehicle from the immense heat of re-entry--broke off during the shuttle's launch, exposing a part of the underside and leaving it vulnerable. Upon re-entry the exposed portion of the vehicle was damaged, and the resulting pressures and heat caused the ship to disintegrate. From what I recall.
patient451 11 months ago
@ISIDRO123456 'So please if u don't know or aren't sure of something just sa'
lol tool.
spameister 11 months ago
@ISIDRO123456 I'm in east TX also, and I heard the boom. It could be that people futher away didn't hear anything, but could still see it.
thesonybluray 10 months ago
@ISIDRO123456 A sonic boom is not an explosion. "So please if u don't know or aren't sure of something just sa" — maybe you should heed your own warnings, genius.
rshharrison 10 months ago
@ISIDRO123456 sometimes I wonder how people could be so stupid.
tlages 10 months ago
@ISIDRO123456 YOU GOT OWNED
100LEGIONS 9 months ago
@ISIDRO123456 I live in east texas and i woke up to my bed vibrating two feet towards my door and thought the train derailed and it was coming towards my house right to my window.. it was that loud and intense.. i live like 4 miles from the train at that.. i will never forget that sound.. as im typing this i just now see your comment mentioning "others thought it was a train"..wow.
masterpsychosis 7 months ago
Chilling. :(
Griwhoolda 11 months ago
im am SO srry for the people (if there were) on that shuttle, but i thought it was kinda cool the re-entry but the innocent people didnt diserve that
thedarksaviour24 11 months ago
Wow, I can't even imagine what the people must have been going through inside the shuttle during that moment.
MultigrainPie 11 months ago
I surprised you could see the shuttle in such great detail from earth, how high is it?
SmoothCriminalAaron 11 months ago
@Brentsey
There really wasn't an explosion. The shuttle broke apart and burned upon re-entry.
ASKADAN 1 year ago 18
When you die, everything ends.No one even hears your spirit!
Hatay31Murat31 1 year ago
So sad. To think that this coming Tuesday will mark the 8th anniversary of this tragedy. May all those who perished onboard rest in peace. And my heart goes out to the families. =(
81Nickelbabe 1 year ago 3
@Brentsey 0:43
chard6788 1 year ago
Did you know what you were seeing at the time?
iaquintom 1 year ago
@iaquintom
I wasn't exactly sure of what I was seeing at the time, but I knew it looked totally different than the night time re-entries I had recorded in the past. Once I went inside I heard and felt the sonic booms. I had never heard a sonic boom from any other re-entry. I guess I just couldn't accept or believe what I had just witnessed and recorded. I mean, what are the odds of capturing something like that on video?
ASKADAN 1 year ago
@ASKADAN Thank you, Askadan, for the respect you showed in creating and sharing this video with NASA and on YouTube. I'm an aerospace engineer. How long after Columbia passed overhead do you estimate you heard and felt the sonic booms?
Knohltorious 11 months ago
I don't know if you were properly thanked or not, but I thank you. I remember this video as one of the first that I had received. The birds chirping and all. Again Than k you very much!
guinness242 1 year ago 26
@guinness242
There was a person from NASA who kept me updated and explained to me how the analysis of my video was going and what the team was finding out about it. Was that you?
ASKADAN 1 year ago 2
I was the first person at JSC to receive this video. Is there any other way to contact you directly. Your video was astonishing.
guinness242 1 year ago 15
@guinness242
I remember setting up a web site with still photos from the video so the experts at NASA could see parts of it while my video was in transit. That was before the YouTube days.
ASKADAN 1 year ago 5
Did you send you send this video to NASA? In 2003?
guinness242 1 year ago
@guinness242
Yes. Not only did NASA receive the video, they even took my camera that I shot the video with and bought me a new one.
ASKADAN 1 year ago
@ASKADAN how come we dont hear any reactions from u
zxdr2 1 year ago
Better to die for science, than religion.
cadetkb 1 year ago
@cadetkb
true to that, i had enough of that bullshit....
joker0187 11 months ago
How did you keep from saying....oh shit ! oh shit ! ohhh shittt !! ?
nerblebun 1 year ago
this is chilling. so sad.
AimeeViolette 1 year ago
And noone know if they were kill before the reenter the earths atmosphere or on the way down.
HalfBritishBoy 1 year ago
@HalfBritishBoy They didnt leave the atmosphere.
aimhigh59 1 year ago
it was a ufo you can see stop just as the challenger was hit by the plasma gun before it went into free fall
pittbullbill 1 year ago
i guess when the shuttle started fragmenting, you reacted by saying" what the hell is going up there?"
lordoftheriffs79 1 year ago
this must be one of the most extreme ways to die. they must have survive at least a minute or two from the point that they new things where flying off the shuttle. at least they had some long seconds of protection from their space suites. Just remember they found out later that even on the challenger disaster some of the astronauts had activated their backup emergancy life systems in their suits. Actualy the clash on the ocean killed them.
hfdeheus 1 year ago
that freaks me out seeing that...i remember when the challenger blew up...i was in school watching it live and my dad was actually taking photos of it and photos of it blowin up...he was literally there and when he came home he was cryin and all...all the kids in my class were crying and freakin out...so were the teachers...sad day in nasa...my heart goes out 2 those families
sungodism 1 year ago
Shit I'd have a hard time keepin my mouth shut!
musicluver13100 1 year ago 4
wow this person recorded such an amazing event and didnt say a word... good video
CarimboHanky 1 year ago 58
@CarimboHanky He probably didn't know that the shuttle was on fire as he was videotaping it flying across the Eastern sky.
If he had I am sure he would have dialed 911 immediately.
planetcheck 11 months ago
@CarimboHanky yea I should have freaked out..
echtnikskan 10 months ago
What you are seeing is the rear of the shuttle facing the camera, the dark areas are the shuttle engines....
lazorrazor 1 year ago
I think it's really very dangerous when they explode as space shuttles to land.
Apollo11ification 1 year ago
dat looks like a ufo shot it
imserious2187 1 year ago
OMG! Pause it at :10. It's a UFO!!!
LeopardGeckoFry 1 year ago
looks to me that the zoomed in picture was a shot of the shuttle from rear to front. this would mean that it was coming in sideways (left side in the lead) . no wonder it ripped apart.
raufus3006 1 year ago
@raufus3006 Shuttles landing in Florida go through a series of embankments to slow down the spacecraft. Right to left, right to left.
dedspin 1 year ago
There are psychotics claiming that this is a flying saucer and not the space shuttle ROFLMAO.
They claim that the space shuttle does not produce shock waves during reentry:
watch?v=N9vtof0HoSM&feature=related
I need to start a UFO club with a focus on fundamental christianity and creationism. These nuts are walking wallets willing to shell out cash for people who support their crazy theories.
firewallx 1 year ago
they died so fast and painless that they were probably in heaven before they knew it...
barcelonasocccer10 1 year ago
i remember i was in the second grade. we were watching the landing and when we heard about the disaster we were all upset. i remember some of the teachers crying later during lunch. sad day for the us spaceprogram and the world
kennerfreak7 1 year ago
@kennerfreak7 I was in 4th when the Challenger disaster occured. I can remember it being one of those moments of a bit more clarity and understanding on life.
txfirehawk 1 year ago
I SAW 2 EXPLOIONS
AND IT WAS FALLING.
AND IT ALSO LEFT BEHIND THE LITTLE CLOWDS I SEE EVERY DAY
lovebunna 1 year ago
chillig
boymanhero3 1 year ago
Why do I feel like an ass when I click the button and get the response 'I Like This'. Stupid YouTube!
cainster 1 year ago
oh my u could see it explode
DawnEsver 1 year ago
At the time, did you realized what was happening ?
You didn't throw a "WTF ?" oe the usual "Hoooooooly shit !"
Nothing ...
KuBi4K 1 year ago 2
Please tell me someone else besides me can see the UFO behind it at 13-14 seconds!!!
Rush6477 1 year ago
how come you didn't say anything, weren't you freaked out, if it was me recording that i would have said oh my god, or o shit, even if i was by myself,
andyseaview 1 year ago
at 0:10, You will see a UFO-shaped like thingy if you make a close-up but actually I am seeing the below of the shuttle. And at the time, Columbia could be making a s-turn, and suddenly break up. Yep, so look closely at the shuttle.
FSXTheGreat 1 year ago
that's amazing footage capture... very sad. We shall not forget Columbia and her crew.
TBONEMCT 1 year ago
did thy burn up on re-entry? what exactly happened
acuratlnigga 1 year ago
I was in Florida watching cartoons and they cut into the very ending of one of the shows to get a live landing from the shuttle. Yeah, I saw Columbia happen live.
Supercharge87 1 year ago
Did you know something was wrong while you were filming this? Great video by the way, but can I also ask how they knew the shuttle was facing the wrong side?
MistofSolaris 1 year ago
i thought it blew up when it landed?
MadisonNicole001 1 year ago
I'm only getting the first 6 seconds then the video stops! It's fully downloaded and the bar is red right the way along, but won't play beyond 6 seconds. Anybody else getting this?
BlackmoonUK 1 year ago
I'm glad they at least made into space. Unlike some of the Challenger crew. Both are incredibly sad though.
misskris111 1 year ago
satan's birds...
avedic 1 year ago
Is that the sound of the shuttle that we hear?
Stoozor 1 year ago 2
If Clint Eastwood were on board he would have gotten it down.......
bandit7498 1 year ago
@bandit7498 But it had to be chuck norris approved!
cfxboxmoh 1 year ago
That might have been caused by slightly uneven burning of the re entry engines used, entering in a slow side slipping movement. (like the RPM, but now horizontal).
Now the left wing catching all the re entry heat instead of the tilted nose, burning and failing, within seconds etc.
falling ice, and a damaged wing on take off, would not have been the cause, in that case.
hackneysaregreat 1 year ago
In your first shot, it looks to me, as if the tailfin has folded over/ collapsed to the right.
If so, that might have been the result of a sideways re-entry, first atmospheric pressure pushing it over making the shuttle unsteerable. Might be the first piece of debris seen.
hackneysaregreat 1 year ago
In your first shot, it looks to me, as if the tailfin has folded over/ collapsed to the right.
If so, that might have been the result of a sideways re-entry, first atmospheric pressure pushing it over making the shuttle unsteerable. Might be the first piece of debris seen.
That might have been caused by slightly uneven burning of the re-entry engines used, entering in a slow side slipping movement. (like the RPM, but now horizontal).
hackneysaregreat 1 year ago
Wait wasnt this the footage on the news?
goodolboy17 1 year ago
btw, for those who dont know why it crashed, the reason was because a small piece of the foam insulate broke off and hit the wing, which at speeds in the 1000s, caused a small hole in the wing. Thus, when re-entering the earth in the stratosphere when it went through the blackout period (a stage when the ship enters a layer of superheated plasma) the plasma made its way in causing the shil to literally disintegrate. And if you dont believe me, my cousin worked in NASA when it happened.
PurpllePlatypus 1 year ago
ufo
hugoo316 1 year ago
that kinda looked like a ufo for sec lol
rebelsouljaz 1 year ago
pause the video at 0:08 is that a U.F.O ?
MrTristen131 1 year ago
This video actually refutes NASA's claim in it's final report that the Shuttle broke up while tumbling out of control. At 0:10 into the video, the zoom shows the Shuttle facing away from the camera, sliding steadily to its left. A few seconds later it begins to disintegrate. Why would NASA iinsist it was tuumbling when this video proves it was not?
Phffbbt 1 year ago
wierd the NASA telemetry timeline doesnt describe a sideways entry .. it was front-on nosedown till breakup the official report says..
EdgeStormcrow 1 year ago
That doesnt look like a space shuttle, even side-on, thats not a shuttle profile to my eyes..
I seen the giant NASA telescopes they use to track all shuttle landings, where the heck is the High quality closeups of the Shuttle?
Surely thats something they need for the investigation?
EdgeStormcrow 1 year ago
From watching this video I can clearly see that birds are the problem.
They must of sucked one into the engine.
boofman666 1 year ago
god that sucks... :o(
they died doing what they love -- what more could a person ask for?
thank you for uploading this.
silverandteal 1 year ago
@silverandteal
....not dying at all?
Martismather 1 year ago
terrible este acontecimiento q triste esta tragedia
BrauCullen 1 year ago
how eactly did they die???shouldent they have like a plan for emergany like escape hatch or espace pods and stuff parachutes????
Jose04811 1 year ago
@Jose04811 When the orbiter broke up the crew compartment depressurised so quickly that none of the crew had time to close their visors. An escape pod, such as the whole crew compartment being ejected, was rejected during design because it would have added too much weight to the Orbiter. Bale-out at the high altitude and hypersonic speeds at which Columbia broke up would not be survivable. There is a bale-out option for Shuttle crews, but only at sub-sonic speeds.
MarsFKA 1 year ago
@Jose04811 @Jose04811 Columbia did have ejection seats for STS-1 through to STS-4 because they were test flights. When the shuttle became operational the seats were removed to save weight and add more crew members. An emergency escape was possible but only after re-entry and was used in a contingency abort only. Basically, if there was no chance of the shuttle making a safe landing the crew would bail out via the side hatch, down a pole away from the wing and parachute down.
dave46563 1 year ago
@Jose04811 Columbia was travelling at Mach 19 and 200,000 ft high when the break up occured. She was still re-entering. Bail out would have been impossible.
dave46563 1 year ago 2
@Jose04811 You try to eject form the worlds fastest glider at Mach 14
skykaptain007 1 year ago
@Jose04811 parachute out of a flaming shuttle at that altitude? i dont think so
stlucianrasta92 1 year ago
Look at 0:28 it looks to me at that point it ignited into a fireball, i think it was that that seal their fate as bad as it sounds :(
MrSamwell09 1 year ago
It looks as though the shuttle was moving away and the all of a sudden it moved to the left past the tree, do you reckon it might have been blown that way or am i seeing it wrong? lol
MrSamwell09 1 year ago
I remember this, my brother was on one of the clean up crews... he said they had a very strict rule about not taking ANYTHING from the crash site.
EaglemanX3Gorilla 1 year ago
@EaglemanX3Gorilla why werent they allowed to?
thatswhatsheread 1 year ago
I am sure a lot of people would appreciate it if ASKADAN put up this video on HD. Thumbs-up if you agree.
DeadMartha 1 year ago
@DeadMartha
i disagree. because it wasn't shot in HD it would not make the image any better.
literale 1 year ago
omg i cant believe u actually shot this... It must have been horrible to see live like that....
KittyNakafima 1 year ago
thanks ASKADAN for uplading this video, i know how frusturating it will be when lot of jerks sayin its not real with some foolish thoughts! but i really appreciate the time you are putting and still explaining things to people out there!
and god bless the people who died in the crash.
abironimattom 1 year ago 9
WHERE DID IT CRASH?
subzyro5 1 year ago
By the time it finished re-entry, the vehicle was no longer intact, therefore nothing left to crash. The debris field stretched across SE Texas across the Louisiana st. line at which point most concentrated, tailing off past Alexandria, LA. Body parts, badly burned, were recovered, and in the end, remains of all 7 astronauts were identified. A horrible way to go.
cedelong5 1 year ago
@subzyro5 from what I remember it disintegrated ( I dont know if I spelled it right) when it came down and only some pieces were found;
fgcarva1 1 year ago
My questions are simple. If this was going on while being recorded by a person thern why is there no reaction to what was being seen? I would assume the person was intrested in the space shuttle but did not seem shocked by what was happening. wierd. also why did the trail begin just after the strange anomalie which flew towards it was seen. right after that happened the trail of smoke started. wierd. This video also appears to be edited.
sexualpervert 1 year ago
.....what are you trying to argue here?
oneofthefew52090 1 year ago
@sexualpervert Guy, if NASA found it real, it is real. Where could you find more experts?? Be serious...
lcf34 1 year ago
I was shocked to see the explosion as it was floating down . Do they know what aircraft hit it?
hooksman60 1 year ago
Without even having done research, it's obvious the heat protecting tiles came off.
barthoedemaker 1 year ago
Tiles were doing fine until the wing fell off. Tiles have never been an issue on the shuttlefor years. In the early days orbiters landed with many tiles missing and hundreds of pot marks from debris. Tiles coming off has not been an issue for 20 years or so. The Columbia accident was not caused by tiles.
mach25man 1 year ago
All because NASA was too cheap to replace a tile.
jaymoore299 1 year ago
Tiles had nothing to do with this accident. Tiles have not been an issue for 20 or so years.
mach25man 1 year ago
some tiles were knocked off when ice hit them during launch. these tiles were right in the middle of one of the hot spots on the wing. the wing burned from the inside out once they started re-entry. this is something that has been documented and proved by nasa, u can find video of the launch were u can clearly see chunks of ice falling off the fuel tank and hitting the wing. this is something that has never happened b4 and was not even noticed at first.
strongbad73 1 year ago
one of the tiles was broken off at take off
JUKIO01 1 year ago
Were you just recording the re-entry, or did you know it was breaking up before you decided to record this?
SAT0WNSFINEST 2 years ago
I've seen the video many times, but I never realized how quickly the shuttle disintegrated. From the beginning of the video, which shows an anomaly, to the end, which shows the complete fragmentation of the shuttle. While heating of the shuttle took time, the actual break apart was rather quick. This is proven in the NASA communications, which was lost quickly as well.
MasterRegal 2 years ago
Does anybody see the UFO flying towards it at about 13 or 14 seconds?
sexybisquit 2 years ago
@sexybisquit my god man there is no UFO get over it!!
MrSamwell09 1 year ago
did nasa pay u for this?
t88boost 2 years ago
I bet they think twice about putting another FORD emblem on the shuttle again !
Moltixar 2 years ago
I lived in Wills Point,Texas at the time,I remember sitting inside a travel trailer,I didn't know it was landing that day,Ithere was an explosion noise,but it turns out that each piece of the shuttle broke the sound barrier,it shook my trailer like a dinamite blast....I stepped out ,but saw nothing,I lived under the normal landing route to Florida,I had watched the Shuttle many times on the same route,I didn't know it crashed until I drove into Canton,Tex,not far from the crash location,
antiques4sale 2 years ago
I'm very curious as to how you managed to get this on video.
Did you know the flight path and where expecting the shuttle to fly over, or did you just happen to be out doors and see it and start to film?
Also,, at the time... were you aware something was going wrong? Or were you just filming assuming from that distance that everything appeared normal.
Very good video.
BarneyFlart 2 years ago
my god
abredell 2 years ago
:( sadface
cannibalcarrie 2 years ago 4
wow i cannot even hear the explosion?
martindanny 2 years ago
It is not an explosion. It is a "fragmentation."
jwashley 2 years ago 16
@martindanny
IT DIDNT EXPLODE
balzenhazelnut 2 years ago 7
its too far away to hear the explosion
lordwatty 2 years ago
well like has been said, there wasnt an explosion anyway! but if there had been, it looks too far away
lordwatty 2 years ago
There wasnt an explosion as the others said, but the noise this thing made as it went over was unreal, it shook our windows and rattled things of counters and tables. We had the a large chunk of the nose section land about 11 miles away from us in between two highways, made a fairly large dent/hole in the ground where it hit. They also found 1-2 helmets right around here. Very tragic, God bless them.
mynameisjadin 1 year ago