Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster Pt 3: The aftermath - BBC

[JoanCollins2009]

did they find the bodys

[clintonearlwalker]

@JoanCollins2009 I read that they found body parts. There is a vid on YouTube showing the Columbia shedding debris over Arizona, it didn't completely disintegrate until it was over Texas, so I would imagine there were pieces scattered for over hundreds of miles. Interestingly, I read there was some type of worms in a dish on the shuttle as an experiment, the dish was found and the worms survived, I think they were microscopic though.

[burnstagger]

Columbia disaster

[burnstagger]

Not the black guy, the Indian.

[TheCarmennova11]

The SADDEST thing was that they were SSOOO close to earth - that you wish there is a way they can adapt a sensory jet - ejector system...with a pod- like they do for those racing boats!

[shellrojas30]

god bless their courage to try.

[astranine]

Both shuttle accidents were avoidable. The o ring failure on Challenger was predicted for that flight but NASA refused to listen to the manufacturer and coerced the company into giving their approval for the flight.

On Columbia, the foam strike was known by day two and NASA had plenty of time to evaluate the damage, but refused. The flight director knew about the problem and appears to be concerned about reentry, well before any problems were reported. Terrible loss of wonderful people.

[TheTypicalGirl]

The black guy probably screwed up.

[LaDominicana7911]

@TheTypicalGirl what an ignorant comment from an ignorant person...

[Gail2727]

@TheTypicalGirl racist and not even the point

[timpovikings]

@TheTypicalGirl

A little bit like your parents, then.

[mpsicily]

@TheTypicalGirl That is about the most idiotic comment I have seen on these posts..

[Alexfan14]

@TheTypicalGirl lol pretty funny

[luckyStrike89ru]

@TheTypicalGirl Or was it the jew? SORRY, I had to say that.

Really sorry for everyone that died, RIP.

[bishop51807]

@TheTypicalGirl It was damaged heat shield tiles not pilot error RASIST ASS! thats why you'll never be in or apart of the space program or the multi-national space station. your typical allright, just a typical Valley Girl who probably havent seen and never will the walls of a real scientific University.

[aimhigh59]

@bishop51807 Heat tiles had nothing to do with the accident. Read up, its very old information.

[bishop51807]

@aimhigh59 Read up on what? you ass holes are always saying read more,read the truth, read history, well read what? refrence for me please because thats what it says on NASA's official accident page. and no matter what you tell me to read you cant make me see your own twisted interpretation VS the accident reports from the scientist! You must be some conspiracy theories or like tube user TheTypicalGirl, a racist cunt!

[aimhigh59]

@bishop51807 Scientist had nothing to do with the reports. Many talented ppl including myself contributed to the reports. The leading edge of the wing was damaged at launch. There are no tiles on the leading edge of the wing. There are tiles under the wing. The leading edge is made of giant panels of reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC). A hole was punched through on launch. During re-entry, the plasma burned the wing from the inside out causing the wing to structurally fail.

[bishop51807]

@aimhigh59 tiles or panels all I did was got the two mixed up I saw the liftoff damage clip you just pretty much summed up the entire video of what I already just saw on nova, GOOD JOB!!

[bustsomecaps]

@aimhigh59 how naive calling yourself talented, nice info any can read the wikipedia and come up with this information.

[amgen52]

@bustsomecaps I've never been on wikipedia for anything shuttle related. I spent 25 yrs. working on the shuttle and two years on the investigation.

[TheMissParadox]

@telj Same here, I was a child when i first saw this, It was so unsettling

[grannie530]

I remember this. I was very very pregnant and the weather was bad so I was sitting at home. I decided to watch NASA tv to watch the shuttle come home. As I was watching I remember that something went wrong; they weren't saying what happened and then the station turned the sound off. I saw that guy crying in mission control and I thought, "oh my God, it's gone." So I flipped some channels and sure enough some news station was showing video of glowing debris streaking across the sky. Horrible.

[hannahhazlehurst]

this really had an inpact on me!because i was over there when columbia took off and then when i was at home in the uk i watched it on the news when it exploded ! RIP all those who died onboard columbia

[alexhamster1134]

these clips are too long, make them shorter please.

[Slyrus76]

My last intention is to downplay this accident but Challenger was by far worst. Columbia had an actual structural failure that our best Eng couldn't even imagine. Challenger was about capitalist morals/concepts applied to science. Columbia was not less of a lost but their was nothing anyone could do to stop it.

It was a crush to the industry when everyone on earth knew that we were paying billions$ to dirty rotten filthy bs to strap our best scientists to a rocket and just push a button...

[seploud]

Going to space is a very dangerous thing, they knew that when they signed up.

[cartmanofsp]

@seploud They weren't in space though, they just entered the atmosphere.

[jazzguitar2010]

@seploud They also assumed NASA engineers wouldn't make simple assumptions about foam striking a wing, and would actually obtain a data base (experience) to back up their recommendation.

[Chubachus]

rip

[telj1]

This is one memory that is forever etched in my mind. Made me vary sad to see this as a kid!

[mattharden1982]

@telj1 i remember it well as do i remember challenger!

[ECTBWHO]

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