Space Shuttle Columbia re-entry

[rockergirl83]

I lived in Murchison, TX at that time, and that loud bang woke me up. I thought it sounded like a car blowing up.

[congaleader2000]

0:09, was he flying sideways? is that the silloute from the back??

[greglam]

At 0:13 - 0:15 you can clearly see a bright, shiny object below and to the right of the shuttle (as you look at the screen) flying TOWARDS the shuttle. Maybe it's just an anomaly caused by the zoom or something.

[ILLALLU]

Birds make it more surreal

[amishmike1]

Thank Heaven they no other Shuttle names began with the letter C. Challenger and Columbia were bad enough

[pugs321]

What is that thing in the air?

[Oooa1227]

@pugs321 the Columbia space shuttle this video is of the shuttle falling to its death it took the lives of 7 people.

[brewster11000]

what is the shit flying towards the view of the re entry right before the birds come into view?

[Idinamenzelluvu]

I have a stupid question, is that..part of the space shuttle breaking apart more? Or is the the whole shuttle?

[JamieEvans64]

@Idinamenzelluvu That's the whole thing... I lived in Cent Texas at that time, and saw it, that's the whole re-entry.

[clintonearlwalker]

@Idinamenzelluvu That is when the shuttle completely disintegrated over Eastern Texas. There is another vid posted on YouTube of Columbia going over Arizona and it can clearly be seen shedding debris, how much earlier it started to fail I don't know. Apparently, the hole in the wing was causing the wing to fail almost as soon as it hit the atmosphere. When it got to Texas it totally failed and the entire shuttle disintegrated.

[deathrooster14]

@clintonearlwalker No, it was the damaged heat shield from a foam strike on launch.

[clintonearlwalker]

@deathrooster14 A piece of briefcase sized foam struck the leading edge of the wing made of reinforced carbon carbon, there are many vids and experiments detailing the cause.

[deathrooster14]

@clintonearlwalker Huh. I thought is was the heat shield.

[clintonearlwalker]

@deathrooster14 Actually, the leading edge of the wing is part of the heat shield. However, the belly of the shuttle is covered with tiles, while the edge of the wings were covered with strips of brittle reinforced carbon carbon, or at least that's what they call it. There are several vids of tests conducted on this carbon that caused holes and dents that would let hot gas enter the wing. The internal struts of the wing are aluminum which melts very easily.

[27puccio]

challenger expoled columbia disintigrated

[jimbobeire]

@27puccio I thought Challenger broke up when the external tank blew, rather than Challenger itself actually exploding. 

[superbubbadude1]

You know? The trajectory or orientation of the shuttle looks misaligned. Flying wing first. I know the foam strike caused the breach, but would that cause the shuttle to fly sideways?

[jimbobeire]

@superbubbadude1 Banking to slow it down from 4 miles a second... they were banking about 50 degrees on the turns.

[xXDEICIDE216Xx]

@superbubbadude1 As the airframe became more and more compromised it basically became uncontrollable. Atleast from what I have seen, thats how I understand it.

[helikopterfan13]

At 0:20 Columbia are exploded!!!

[eurfer]

so so sad... R.I.P. you were true heros

[zlodeu08]

Жуткое пение птиц.

А это время.....

[nexus1g]

I wonder what it's like to die like that.

[netradioheyu]

@nexus1g Me to



[danahan01]

@fuckmyasswithadick, are you proud of your screen name? Really dude, get a life and have good old fashioned intercourse. It's much better than having the wrong end of a baseball bat shoved up your poop chute.

[shannonm75]

it's eerie to hear the birds keep singing like nothing happened. I remember hearing the boom sound but I didn't go out to check. I would have seen it over my backyard. Did not hear the explosion on this video.

[Rockets010101]

Have respect

[MrBallie66]

Our beloved explorers are like, I am sorry to say, the hamsters of our technological future and like all those who contribute to our future. solders, doctors, construction workers, fireman. All we should do is praise them for it. These guy's will and have gone down in the history books. and will be remembered for ever. God bless them. There is no final frontier.

[Rao665]

rest in peace to the Challanger and Columbia Crews. I remember being on board a ship on the Indian Ocean when this happened. i was on watch, and someone tells me through the coms to look up in the sky...he said it was the "Columbia".

[tunkunrunk]

@Rao665 space conquest is not acquired  , massive rockets,full of flammable fuel ,are still dangerous . humans won't be able to really explore our solar system without building safe and reliable spaceships

[Chisuz]

the zoom really looks like its rotated 90° to its trajectory?

[dwayne9876]

:( my heart hurts

[5840carlos]

f-a-k-e=FAKE!

[deccno]

They were still alive until impact.

[fuckmyasswithadick]

Wow just Beautiful.

i hope no one was in that though.

[jacksonfiore]

@fuckmyasswithadick you're retarded

[fuckmyasswithadick]

@jacksonfiore why??

did i say something wrong?

[jacksonfiore]

@fuckmyasswithadick 7 people were in there, they all died. how do you not know these things

[fuckmyasswithadick]

@jacksonfiore sorry did not know that happend, it was not big of a news in my country.

sorry for my bad english and thanks for the info!

[Eyeolus]

@fuckmyasswithadick not sure if stupid or trolling

[jimppk]

@40390576 u need to wake up dude...

[Vortex93]

Is it me, or does the close up looks like UFO, but RIP all the astronaut aboard the space shuttle :(

[DivineDestiny77]

@40390576

None of us can say what went on in these people's hearts and minds in the last two minutes before the shuttle made impact, but we can hope they found peace and comfort in those moments of great distress just before their death.

[Sara4Fergie]

I remember watching this and thinking "Wait a minute. What the heck just happened? I don't think that was supposed to happen. That's almost like the Challenger." I was just baby when the Challenger happened. I was just shy of being 1 year old. When Columbia happened I was just shy of being 18.

[ak47razgriz]

If u guys could see ... U can see like a point after they gt on fire! Was it an pvni?

[jimppk]

This Shuttle was shot down by aliens....

[bradmann85]

from where i live the shuttle could be seen in the norther horizon.

[afterthefox]

on the close up u can see Columbia is already on fire...

[eclipsetuner99]

@afterthefox Its the heat from re entry

[SurestPlayer]

the tranquility of the place that it this is being shot at really conflicts with the true tragedy of the situation. It conjurs up mixed feelings. 

[cwwiss1]

at 0.08 it just doesn't look like the shuttle at all to me

[ruler1978]

g3t over it they are dead and thats part of their jobs. if u got a prob feel free to visit me.

[carguy05vids]

@ruler1978 all cute you put a 3 in g3t i can tell already your a child and yes i would knock you off your feet with one hand.

[ruler1978]

@carguy05vids last time i checked i was 33 and u couldnt knock off a candy store you sum bitch.

[carguy05vids]

@ruler1978 33 and you put little 3's for E's in your typing your cool? and what's this about me knocking off a candy store? im a college student and i have no record at all i wouldn't want to knock off any store lol? oh and yeaaa summmmmm bitchhh redneck to?

[ruler1978]

@carguy05vids oooooh im scared what are you some northern cocksucker, i served u and ur family and the united states for 10 years in the army in wars u would never imagine, soldiers dying, getting shot, and me i lost a good freind in a roadside bomb so dont tell me shit , unless u do it too.

[Iambearjew1]

@ruler1978 AHahahah Oh my god! You are single-handedly the biggest fucking twat I have ever seen in my entire life. I bet if I came over to your house... Or I mean your mom's basement, you'd shit your pants so quick you would die before I could knock your ass out. Quit trolling on a video that represents a sad time in American history. If you had a first grader's education or an education at all for that matter you would just kill yourself so the world could move on.

[ruler1978]

@Iambearjew1 listen here u jew bastard, im not afraid of anybody not even god,so if u got the balls then bring it u motherfucking cocksucker.

[COD4soldier56]

@ruler1978 @lambearjew1 lmfao you guys made my night when I saw this argument.

[Skirnir18]

@COD4soldier56 agreed ! !

[SnakeSalmon8izback]

@ruler1978 aww, did the little kiddo drink to much soda again?

[IxIPaincakesIxI]

@ruler1978 A: I don't think "part of their job" Is exploding upon re-entry. But it IS a risk. And B, Stop acting tough on the internet. Such Ignorance.

[IxIPaincakesIxI]

@ruler1978 Lmao What a stupid fuck. Ever heard of being a dumb shit? An example of shit happens is when your mom when to the abortion clinic and she was too far along to abort your dumb ass. So she decided to drink until you would die in her uterus from alcohol poisoning. but instead resulted in your deformation, and thats why your such an ugly, idiotic stupid bitch. Like you said..... Shit happens. Fuck off.

[ASSHOLELA]

they should line the cockpit with heat resistant carbon reinforced panels and put a parachute on that damn thing.

stupidest mistake ever by nasa.

[fuzlwuzl]

@ASSHOLELA You hear that NASA? ASSHOLELA has a great idea to protect the shuttle crews! Just put "carbon reinforced panels" and a "parachute" on it, everything will be fine!! Glad we got that little mistake fixed.

Yours truly,

Amateur who thinks he's smarter than NASA scientists

[MegaBrian1960]

Remarkable video. Especially with the peaceful sound of the birds juxtaposed to the tragedy going on in the background, 37 miles up and @12,000mph. So close: 1/7000 of the distance to go, and a block of foam determined their fate only seconds into their journey. A 14440 minute journey, and 9 minutes to home. is .0006 amount of time left. RIP Columbia crew.

[TroyOi]

@MegaBrian1960 Very true, but it perhaps should be emphasized that those first few moments of the journey, along with the last few, have always been acknowledged as by far the most dangerous for any Shuttle mission.

[MegaBrian1960]

@TroyOi You are right. And thank you for commenting. To a much lesser degree, commercial flights are also more exposed on take-off & landing. The bookends of fate.

[bw21702]

and oh yea!

this was a tragedy. And how could somebody make fun or turn this into a joke. If you think this was funny, you have to be high or somewhat mentally ill. And on God! Why do people get mad when someone does say something like God isn't real. I believe in god, but so what the other dude doesn't! I really don't give a fuck one way or another if he believes in god. But i'm not going to bash him online cuz he doesn't. Christians kill me with that judgemental bullshit! Mind your business

[bw21702]

Since you got an avatar/alias name you feel like you're hidden enuff to say whatever it is you want. So now you have balls. We know damn well each and every one of you are soft as shit in real life. But now you got balls & are extra opinionated. If you were approached and used the same attitude to defend yourself to someone in real life, you'd be recovering in a hospital or dead. Internet Thugs Give me a break. We know you're really candyasses in real life, so why fake like you so hard online?

[gwgn02]

RIP American Hero's. Godspeed.

[IcemanEdits]

@lilcarnage Dude, what the fuck?!?!?! That's not even funny, this was a massive tragedy and 7 people died. Grow some fucking balls and show some god damn respect you gay ass queer.

[IcemanEdits]

@lilcarnage Yeah, that doesn't mean you have to go around and be a total ass hole about it. It is one of the greatest tragedy's of space flight ever and you're making fun of it. Yeah you don't see how it would come into this because you don't have any in the first place and go ahead and be a fag if you want, I don't give a shit.

[lilcarnage]

@IcemanEdits if you dont give a shit why bother typing that all out.

[danahan01]

Man you none believers are a little sensitive. I prayed for them that day. God took them in his arms and kept them safe. I hope to see them some day when I get there. It will be great to see them again. God bless their souls.

[marcuelcajon]

Why is it every time I view something science related on Youtube, there is always religious dogma being disseminated around the comments section.. Is your deity so pathetically void that he/she needs you to promote him/her, or is it that in the face of Science you feel that your deity is threatened?

[sluggslackjaw]

@marcuelcajon You feed the religious troll...

[ThePTB]

@marcuelcajon I think I love you.

[bigwalston0071]

The universe is still expanding. I guess god is still working. 13 billion light years away.

[DivineDestiny77]

Kingfordian22:

You mentioned the crew did know what was going on for 2 minutes (that the shuttle was out of control) before impact. If this is indeed true, that gives hope to think they had time to quickly get right with God (to cry out to Him in their hearts since they couldn't talk out loud) in the last few moments before they died.

[bigwalston0071]

@DivineDestiny77 You need to go take some science classes. Specifically astronomy courses. GOD is a man made construct to explain the unknown.

[cruiseguyhawaii]

@bigwalston0071 I guess you will enjoy eternity in Hell then with that line of thinking. Good luck!

[bigwalston0071]

@cruiseguyhawaii Eternity in hell. WTF is wrong with you religious nut jobs? You really believe that people(ie. you) are so special that there is a divine power somewhere that created you? I'm done with this conversation. GOD IS NOT REAL. GOOD BYE

[cruiseguyhawaii]

@bigwalston0071 LOL I never said i was special at all; those were YOUR words, not mine! I respect your right not to believe in God & I would hope you would respect my right to believe that God does in fact exist! God, is in fact real & it is your choice whether to believe in Him or not. I guess you will find out for sure when your time on earth is over, wont you!? And, what will you do then when you stand before God in judgement & He tells you it is to late to believein Him at that point??? hmm

[bigwalston0071]

@cruiseguyhawaii What will you do if you die and there is no god? You people are idiots. Me and Stephen Hawking are LOLing at you idiots. It is fine for you to believe whatever you want. I will spend my finite time on earth living and worrying about how to make the best of my time. You can continue to waste un-told hours praying to your imaginary friend.

[cruiseguyhawaii]

@bigwalston0071 I would rather die and find out there is no God, than to die &find out there is a God & that I will now spend eternity in hell because i refused to accept Christ as my savior! The really sad thing however though is that you seem to be perfectly okay with living your finite time on earth in a state of such hurt & anger that you display in your messages to me. If you surrender your hurt & anger to God, He will deliver you from it and fill your life with the most incredible joy! :-)

[marcuelcajon]

@cruiseguyhawaii Shut Up!

[cruiseguyhawaii]

@marcuelcajon Im sorry, your mommy touched you, where?!?!?!?!

[marcuelcajon]

@cruiseguyhawaii Actually, that is more prominent in your line of work.Specifically with little boys.

[maxibest1986]

this is astonishing footage.

[emenentia]

You all are dumb... the shuttle is not sideways... it's the freaking camera shutter. It makes far bright objects look like a diamond shape when you try to zoom into it!

[pulakification]

inside job

[f12raptor]

May their spirits and souls rest peacefully in the heavens they reached for... 

[TheJer1963]

Still very sad to watch, 39 miles high when this happened.

[7shaquan]

just a little closer :(

[spongebobzawesome]

NASA stans for "Needs Another Seven Astronauts"

God bless their souls.

[PeyoteCowboy]

and birds are singing...

[DJKaneHtownshuffler]

i wonder what that would of sound like????

[yeewaishun]

@0:09, it doesnt look like space shuttle. is it an ufo? or the shuttle already break up it just part of it? may all astronauts RIP:_

[firewallx]

It appears that the closeup at the beginning showed the shuttle about 3-5 seconds before major disintegration.

If the uploader had keep the zoom on, he/she would have had the only tape in existence of showing exactly how this happened. Probably would have been worth a few hundred grand...but alas, he/she zoomed out a few seconds early.

[dazzaboy04]

@douglaser2005 you're right the shuttle is comin in sideways, the reason for this is to help with trajectory and to decrease drag as it enters the atmosphere

[RyanLies]

8 years ago.. maan

[gwhendri]

so beautiful so twisted MAGNIFICENT

[flame20099]

it makes your guts lurch.....to think they were so bloody close to making it home....

[PhillipMcLoins]

I bet they didn't feel a thing.

[Kingfordian22]

@PhillipMcLoins

They did unfortunately. They knew what was happening for up to 2 minutes as their shuttle rolled out of control. They lost conciousness after cabin depressurisation and some were unconcious and only died when they impacted with the ground.

[sarses]

@Firestormify

Perhaps you should review your facts.

Soyuz 1 and Soyuz 11, both Soviet Space Missions resulted in fatalities.

[lordkelvin13]

men...the shuttle was swallowed by a UFO

[SUGARLANDFAN991]

They gave there lives that day,

[andyman2461]

at 00:10 i don't know what i am seeing.

[Douglaser2005]

Is it only me, but the close up looks like the shuttle is coming in sideways...

[1dante2]

It does look that way here. Either the video is doctored or its a visual artifact on this video. I don't see how the shuttle could fly sideways and not tumble like it appears here. Wish he would've kept it zoomed in longer to see what failed and how. Not for me but for the scientists to decipher the data seen on the video.

[Kingfordian22]

@Douglaser2005

It was on an angle (which is normal procedure during re-entry) the side exposed to the most heat was the damaged side. Had the shuttle been on the opposite angle, the shuttle might have made it home.

[magicshawn85]

@Douglaser2005 Actually the shuttle is sideways because it does a series of banking to increase drag and slow the shuttle's velocity and to fix the shuttle's trajectory, aiming it for the shuttle's landing site at the SLF in Cape Canaveral. Just a little fact to bear in mind. :)

[bookerdann]

@magicshawn85 Yes, the shuttle does do a series of banking turns to slow it's speed, but at no time does it fly sideways with it's left wing catching the brunt of the air stream, as the video indicates it was.

[motorhead4907]

@bookerdann I think that at this point in the re-entry, they had lost all control and may have been incapacitated.

[bookerdann]

@motorhead4907 I think we're actually seeing the point where that begins to happen. During the zoom-in the shuttle does not appear to be tumbling yet, but shortly after the zoom-out you can see where it begins. The autopsies revealed that the astronauts were killed by blunt force trauma (not from being burned) because their seats tore loose and were thrown around the cabin at an incredible rate as the shuttle tumbled. Very sad..

[emenentia]

@bookerdann It's the damn camera shutter! It makes bright object at a distant look like a diamond shape when zoomed into it from a great distance!

[magicshawn85]

@bookerdann ohhhhhh... I misinterpreted what he said. He said sieways.. I was thinking something else I guess.

[wvhb44beardog]

@Douglaser2005 all space shuttles do that. It's a normal procedure.

[bookerdann]

@Douglaser2005 It is coming in sideways. Whether we're looking at the front or the back is impossible to determine. If the strip of black in the center are the windshield windows (distorted because if the camera distance) that would be in line with NASA's discription of the shuttle yawing to the left right before it broke up. If not, who knows. One thing is certain...it appears the horizontal stablizer is severly damaged.

[chryslerisXXl]

@Douglaser2005 it comes in sideways so it dosnt get heated atop the shuttle if that happened they would die the bottom of the shuttle has "heat pads" it basicly doesnt burn so its in a way safer

[Zebonka]

The shuttle does perform very big banks from one side to the other, but that's not what you're seeing in this video. The shuttle is way too high for the camera to properly resolve it - the 'shape' is just a lens distortion or whatever.

[zideeq]

still no one can explain the dots that appear around the shuttle while it crashes, purple rays come from the white dots and SHOOT at the shuttle!!, if it was DEBRIS then how the fuck does the ray head TOWARDS the shuttle, its supposed to FLY off from the shuttle.....

[Kingfordian22]

@zideeq

That is debris. The left wing ripped off the shuttle... the structure couldn't hold anymore. Those "rays" you see are the explosion. You are most likely seeing experiments in the spacelab or propellant tanks exploding during break up. The temparature up there was over 2000 degrees

[zideeq]

@Kingfordian22 still doesn't explain the fact that there are "rays" descending and goin into the shuttle.......2000 degress huh? Heat would be rising at an insane speed then wouldn't it..........rays aren't going up or away from the shuttle, liek I said, they are going INTO it.........

[Kingfordian22]

@zideeq

Well think about it. At that point, the veichle broke up. Debris was flying in all directions. Infact, they landed in several different states. It's just an optical illusion (the rays). You say they are going into it. Well literally, the spot where you say the shuttle is, it is obvious at that point the shuttle was no longer intact because it had broken up and you just saw debris in the area it once was. There is no way a UFO shot down Columbia

[zideeq]

@Kingfordian22 hmm, well considering the roswell incident, I personally don't believe what the US Government says anymore....

[Zarrimus]

omg, it would be so terrible to watch a space shuttle with PEOPLE in it to explode in the air. i cant believe it. just so sad... :'(

[FlyGuy357]

It's strange that the "official" description of the accident don't quite reflect the transcrips, The last 'clear" transmission hinting at the left main landing gear "low pressure" warning. In the vidio, the first large chunk of spacecrft is the left main langing gear door. This, to me, indicates that the rapid deflation / bursting of the left main gear tires opened the gear door,. It tripped the boundy layer air and caused the departure of the left main gear door,

[joesfaves]

That's highly speculative from your point of view.

[FlyGuy357]

yessir, .... and it's almost impossibe to prove now. I've searched YouTube for some of CNN's digitally zoomed images of this video. It's not here. The sequence of disintegration was, left MLG door, 3 left rolls due to left asymetrical drag, verticle stabilizer, left wing / right wing and finally main engines. If you find it, please let me know.

[crucialconflict02]

:-(

[krakenwave]

bookerdann - go outside and film a launched satellite when its 40km up in the air. Then you photo-shop some shit from "Armageddon" like a battery-port and antenna and stuff, and let us know plskthnx?

[bookerdann]

The person who shot the video seems to disagree with your analysis. It is interesting that an optical illusion, as you call it, would be almost perfectly symetrical. Likewise, there is disagreement in some quarters about the exact altitude the shuttle was at when it broke up from examinations of the location of the debris field and the trajectory of the various pieces of debris.

Am I to assume that your idea of a good education means simply taking the government at it's word?

[krakenwave]

*facepalm*

We are not all home-skuled-ID-prayin Americans, you pea-brained ignorant-of-the-very-basics-sc­ience conspiracy-theorist fuckwit.

[bookerdann]

Notice how the zoom-in shows Columbia coming in sideways, facing 90 degrees to starboard with it's tail facing the camera? That's not what NASA says happened. NASA says it cartwheeled to the left. Notice how you never see this particular clip in any media file coverage? NASA tried to say the camera distorted the image because of the distance. How can a distorted camera image reveal a side of an object that is not facing the camera to begin with? That's our government and your tax dollars at work

[krakenwave]

Its a focusing distortion/illusion that's all - the shuttle is 40km high still so you're not going to see the shuttle's shape with the zoom on the JVC from Bestbuy. If you want to moan about our tax dollars, how much have we wasted on your education?

[theimperfektman]

@krakenwave pwnt

[TheJediCharles]

Makes my stomach hurt.

[whiteferio]

where did it get shot? i didn't see no purple thingy comith afar them shuttle

[krakenwave]

It didn't get shot. The "purple streak" was just a processing streak effect on one other video.

[cptskellern]

wrong,it was hit with something,and it wasnt lightning. theres footage filmed from military planes,only a few people have seen the footage. either a ufo or a star wars weapon gone wrong.

[laurenizkoolshyt]

uh, obviously you dont do research. insulation fell off the shutte, hitting one of the landing wings.

[chipcobb1]

uh,you obviously believe what the media tell you,look up david sereda about this subject,and you will find out what exactly happend.

[firewallx]

@laurenizkoolshyt Hitting one of the 'landing wings?'  As opposed to the launching wings? Or the flying wings?

[jupitorman]

very sad