Columbia Disaster

[mrsmariacosme]

Ibheard Bout this its real but they didnt know

[619badazz13]

THEY WERE BLOWN UP BY THE U.S GOVERMENT , THEY SAW SOME THING UP THERE IIN SPACE AND WERENT GONA KEEP THERE MOUTHS SHUT ABOUT IT

[misqumockas]

@619badazz13 Give me a break.......

[619badazz13]

@misqumockas well they were

[HannahAndAlena]

It's amazing people can risk their lives for science.. Bless the people that will go into space in the future..and bless the people who died in the NASA rockets..astronauts are my heros.:( bless them

All!

[vaitripleseven]

@andyseaview According to CAIB (Columbia accident investigation board) crew (at least CDR and PLT) was aware of off-nominal events to some extent.They positively knew about landing gear mixed signals and hydraulics failure, PLT tried to restart the APU's and showed great knowledge of shuttle systems by engaging hydraulic pump No.2 in order to restore hydraulic pressure to control aerodynamic surfaces (ailerons).Very shortly after this decompression occured which rendered the crew unconscious.RIP

[FactoryForFailuree]

RIP ....... i really think that us as humans cant not make big sacrifices like this to further our understanding of the area outside of earth : (

[andyseaview]

were they alive while shuttle was breaking up, did they know it was happening or did it happen so fast they never knew what was happening

[kishoka09]

@andyseaview , i just pray it happened fast

[CamiloSanchez1979]

Why the sensors went offscale low? shouldn't have they gone offscale high, because of the temperatures? please respond.

[misqumockas]

@CamiloSanchez1979 The Sensors in question are no longer functioning at that point giving the offscale low.

[julosx]

A lot of NASA execs (esp. Linda Ham) should be sued and sent to prison after this crash. They knew from the early beginning (the foam debris hit the left wing 82 seconds after take-off) that there was critical damage caused to the orbiter but they consciously chose to overlook it and prevented anyone to warn the crew about the initial event and its predictible sequels.

[FactoryForFailuree]

@julosx it left after take off ?  how were they going to stop something powered by tons and tons of explosive fuel propelling it upward ???

[julosx]

@FactoryForFailuree I guess there was a possibility to abort the mission after take off by separating the rocket from the shuttle at one point before it reached a critical altitude. I may be wrong but the word is, again, the orbiter crew had never been told about it before it was too late.

[FactoryForFailuree]

@julosx if they did that they would still have died because they were too high up to detach the shuttle the shuttle would have come crashing down :( its a big price to pay for space exploration but they knew the possibilities of them not returning its for all around strong people. emotionally. physically and more . i could never do it

[TroyaE117]

Terrible temperatures. If they get to the structure of the spacecraft, it simply cannot stand it.

[seba6452]

i will never forget that day R.I.P Columbia

[EndeavourLaunch]

We aren't very sure what happened in those final seconds. All we know was, we believe William McCool was in the process of toggling the APU's as the shuttle was starting to spin out of control, didn't get them back up. The seat belts also acted as buzz saws and well.. you can imagine what happened next. This was all reported in the NASA report released back in December 2008.

[AngelofMusic8587]

Aliens attacked!?

[terryk1233]

6:41

crew? "oh my god" ??

[eljuezpornorma]

RIP

[TheVatsri]

did the spaceship first disintegrate above the bermuda triangle?

[VMFA115Starloric]

epic fail..

wrong side of the world vatsri..

[AngelofMusic8587]

@TheVatsri, yes.

[rightlydivide]

at 1:32 does anybody know what that other bright light is?

[flame20099]

@rightlydivide that ( light)even though it appears to be still, doesn;t look right to be sirius-venus-jupiter-saturn...­..the usual bright night-time objects,but the problem is Columbia is already losing stuff way before it passes/encounters this second object.....so what is/is there any connection?

[Starbuckin]

I agree, well made.

[ShamilBasayev]

Well made

[Roadracer987654321]

I read that a Minishuttle launchable from a Rocket is under Development.

A new full size Space Shuttle even larger should be Built. It should be designed t obe Better than the last generation of Shuttle with an Ejectable Crew Module with an independent Heat Shield.

It should be named Columbia II

[danschaoticmind]

Pardon me, but there is no such space craft in development. You are refering to the Boeing Proposal for a space launch vehicle based upon the X-15 and the space shuttle. This was dropped in favor of the Orion CEV and the ARES 1 /ARES V

[mach25man]

You are correct. A minishuttle developed by the airforce will be launched on an Atlas rocket in the spring. It was originally going to be launched by Nasa's shutlle until politics changed Nasa's mission. The minishuttle will land at Vandenburg or Edwards. The landing site has not been picked yet. This is not a secret project, there is just not a lot of info out yet.

[equarg]

RIP. The Shuttle Columbia is now yours to do what you wish for all of eternity, may she fly you to where your heart desires. If it be explore the universe, or take you to final resting place for all eternity. God Bless

[XBAGREMX]

R.I.P

[Teriander]

Where could I find a continuation of the conversation? I want to hear response to the female at the end reporting temps that are off scale low.

[XxZegetaXx]

When the stars fall down..

R.I.P.

[DethDealer23]

R.I.P.

[pelagic6]

They are all relaying the sensor data, yet they all knew the fate of this crew. Very sad indeed. RIP.

[Jimbothy]

If they had their helmets down, they would've actually melted and fused with their suits/ship. They left it open and when they noticed. It's actually a good thing.

[mach25man]

Helmets up or down would have been ripped off their bodies as soon as they were exposed to the outside at Mach 12. All 7 helmets were recovered.

[Mpower330csl]

they burned up or torn apart from high velocity air friction (~16,000 mp/h)

[wwefan774977]

to tell you the truth when it broke up they lived in the capsule untill 2,000 feet and died from heat or somthing or lived when they hit the ground and died from wounds but i dont get wy they dont do protection checks like they do now and would of say the hole and stop them from entering the earth but they didnt know that untill it broke up

R.I.P columbia

so shocking

[ZaneKaminski]

The hitting the ground (actually ocean) thing was Challenger...

[mach25man]

They died from asphyxiation (lack of oyxgen) when the orbiter broke up at 120000 ft. Please explain what a protection check is ?

[knightryderrwn]

mach25man,

I think that the "protection check" wwefan774977 is referring to is the check they do on-orbit from the ISS when the orbiter does a 360-degree flip so that the ISS crew can visually (and with scanners) inspect the tiles to ensure there have not been any tile breaches.

[mach25man]

Understand. The ISS crew actually just takes photos with a 400mm & 800mm camera lens. The photos are downlinked the next day to the ground. The scanning as you call it is done by the crew on flight day 2 with the OBSS using the shuttle arm to video and using a laser to measure and damage. I just never heard it called a protection check so I wanted him to explain. :)

[knightryderrwn]

Okay - Sorry for butting in. :)

[wwefan774977]

ty thats exacly what i mean

[knightryderrwn]

no problem.

[jonDgr8]

Is it just me? or is there a ufo that appears at 7:36..and hovers above, and 'follows' the fragmentation of Columbia?

[wwefan774977]

u are fucking stupid its debirs fromthe shuttle there is no such thing as a uf fucking o

[ZaneKaminski]

There are such things as UFOs...

UFO stands for unidentified flying object...

If it's unidentifiable and flying, it's a UFO. UFO doesn't mean "alien spacecraft" or anything. It just means something flying that you can't identify.

[619badazz13]

@ZaneKaminski there just goverment air craft thats all

[SeekayFilms]

It's part of the fade-in for the video that starts at 7:35.

[picardshero]

I knew about challenger but I didn't know columbia got destroyed also.. how weird.

[unskinnyboba]

OK, Picardshero, I'm hoping you are from a country other than America because if you reside here and did not know Columbia crashed, I will scream.

[picardshero]

Yes im in america but I don't really track the shuttle launches. To much gaming I guess.

[lewisvann]

you don't have to track shuttle launches to watch or read the news idiot

[loscantos]

well, BurnSchulz, I said that I would like to die while sleeping....no consciousness, no pain, only smoothly passing away.

and....about all the things you said about the moment of passing.....i think nobody who has been really death has returned to tell us about his experience....(despite movies and esoteric tv shows try to tell us about it). thanks for your comments..

[Faulkenmind]

Thanks for this reconstruction. I wish there was a few more minutes of audio/video coverage as Houston begins to realize this is not just an instrumentation problem.

[pacificguitarist]

Er.... No. Did some in NASA think the falling debris posed a potential threat? Yes. Most didn't think too much about it. But to say they were sacrificed is fucking stupid.

[666DarkEgo]

i say so too i totally agree

y would he say they were sacrificed when he could have said N.A.S.A need another seven astronauts[jokes=]]

no he could have said they felt no pain and died peacefully doing what they loved and experiencing the pure excitment of life until the last few seconds...

may they R.I.P

[Ashley6336]

So...what exactly have we achieved in travelling to the moon and back? We now have some valuable moon rock...yay...

[royroidx3]

Just science and other stuff they didn't teach you in school.

[Aeroheadv1]

Just evidence of man's presence on another world and confirmation of the possiblity of someday reaching our greatest potential by leaving our grain of sand and extending our hands toward our cosmic brethren in the spirit that we are all one in the spirit of peaceful exploration.

[Aeroheadv1]

Oh, and also as a reminder that the relation of our existence to that of the grand Universal scheme, is simply this: all the history of the planet earth, civil rights, evolution to the top of the food chain, all the wars, all the protests, all the lives and deaths of our most important leaders all took place on but a grain of sand.

[Aeroheadv1]

But if you don't count that as anything, then nothing much came out of it I suppose.

[mbaumik]

honour plus glory !!!

[fgl7777]

i m sure that if they could have  chosen how to die, thzy woud all have chosen to die doing what they lived for. they are the real heroes,

[loscantos]

really.....if everyone could choose his way to death...... i think almost all people wanted to be hin his bed sleeping and feelin no pain.....

[BurnSchulz]

Why do you think dying in sleep/in bed causes no pain?

it is Pain.

Just think about how it is if your body doesnt move one bit no matter how often you try. Youre absolutely awake but you realise that your body wont move. So you lie there, and even your breath stops. You get panik. Your senses begin to faint... the last 2 Things you think about is. lease someone help me, im dying. And then you see your whole life in front of your eyes, thats the moment youre dying and the pain slowly goes away.

[oldupchuck2]

7 :47..... MY kin flung out of the top thermos bottle, of the crew cabin, and burned up in space... God damn this all to hell......i wish that this shit had never happended.....i can not change the course of one atom in space,,,,but god damn this shit to hell. i hate death more than life. But, life goes on,,, Atlantis returned to Earth today. Thankyou God, for this day May. 24, 2009....

[kush2121]

I still remember this day like it was yesterday. Going to bed knowing that the shuttle would land then next morning and turning on the t.v once I woke up only to see that tragedy had struck. God speed to those who have lost their lives and to those who put theirs on the line everyday doing what they love.

[x24val]

visit my youtube channel x24val ( I made this video)

...there's tons more infor there.

also google "chris Valentine" and you'll find even more on the disaster via my website

[oldupchuck2]

I wasn't right after the Challenger,,,and all these years later i have seen blood of my blood spilled in space. This wonderful country that we share has really been going south since Feb. 1 , 2003. I worry for this great land. In my 60+ years i have seen a polite and sane society degenerate into what can only be called insane, self debasing , and increasingly self destructive. Oh,Well,,, I can't do anything about it. Im a disabled veteran. Have health, for without it , nothing has value.

[cherry32959]

thank you, sir, for your service to our great nation. my daugher, who is 21 is now in the Air Force. It scares me to death, but I couldn't be prouder of her.

[mindsoulbody]

Sir, you said what is true. And we few if not many, share your views.

[lapierresucks]

Absolutely right Sir. I am a canadian and i respect what you all did for our countries.

[oldupchuck2]

I guess anyone in south Florida could go outside and look at the only cloud up in the sky. It lingered in the sky long after the exhaust plume , and solid rocket seperate plumes,had completely disapated. I would say the vapor cloud took about 1 hour to disapate. All i could do was watch the cloud, and the buses full of school children returning to the main visitor center. Then the announcement was made over the loud speakers that the Kennedy Space Center was closed ,,,please exit the grounds.

[oldupchuck2]

cbrucker, Sorry about my basically incoherant rant of several days ago. I haven't had much luck since i watched the Challenger come apart and explode back in 1986. I was at the cape that awful ,cold January morning. Once you have seen a spaceship explode and crash, you really haven't seen that much " Gotterdammerung" on Earth. As an after thought, i realized that nobody has a full video with sound that reveals the huge BOOM that pushed me back about an inch. The shock wave took 70 seconds .

[cherry32959]

gosh, I just watched the last shuttle take off yesterday and had been watching both the challenger and discovery when they were live, I get really scared. I can't imagine having been there. this one is so sad because they were doomed days before when they first took off. my daughter is now in the air force.

[Chrisjr2007]

Discovery is still alive..Its Columbia and Challenger which are destroyed.Those Astronauts onboard are my heroes.They risk there lifes for the better future of the Human race.

[huskythehusky]

so true

[lewisvann]

'They risk there lifes for the better future of the Human race, heroes...omg is there any more schmaltz you could add in here-- they are astronauts because they wanted to go to space since they were kids....end of story. I suppose pilots are heros becuase they just want to bring people closer together and better mankind...oh grow up

[TechnoGospel]

The columbia landing would have gone unnoticed. It takes a tragedy to bring us together...along with a lot of cameras.

[EndeavourLaunch]

This day really sucked, badly.

We just had 9/11 a little over a year before this,

felt the same sickening feeling as I did challenger. Very horrific day.

[EndeavourLaunch]

Thank you.

[Kforkuzgun]

great documentation of various video

[NhoSaiGon828]

not bad .I really got to see it explode clearly. but i really dont like it when the vid doesn't have any sound.

[deliveryman26]

its real sad

we shouldnt forget them

[cbrucker]

GLOC (loss of consciousness due to extreme G forces) would have occured at 1-6 seconds after loss of aerodynamic control under 19-27G's. Death would have occured due to aerodynamic/G loads, physical insult (the result of debris penetrating their bodies and/or G's) or thermal insult (due to the incredible temperatures) in less than 20 seconds.

[passycot]

so the crew would have been dead long before the shuttle disintegrated. Would they have been aware of what was happening at all.

[cbrucker]

passycot, unfortunately I think they were aware that they were in trouble shortly before the vehicle lost positive dynamic control. The control surfaces would have steadily increased to maximum deflection as the wing deteriorated trying to keep the vehicle on course. Once they departed controlled flight, they might have lived for a short time, but would have been quickly rendered unconcious by G's.

[oldupchuck2]

screw your thermal insult,,,,, they were quite como by then....lol...no visors down. My second cousin died in this flight,,so have a great day...

[clayzee001]

your related to one of the astronauts? sorry for your loss R.I.P. STS-107 crew

[cbrucker]

Sorry, having a hard time following. Which member of 107 was your cousin? I didn't know them all, but I met all but two, and knew a few fairly well. Attended the Memorials, and spoke at one on behalf of the Field Recovery crew and volunteers. Sad Day.

[cbrucker]

What I don't understand is your issue with my answer to the question above. "Insult" = physical trauma whether caused by debris, or temperature. "Screw your thermal insult" does nothing to honor your cousin's memory, or explain how it happened to people who don't know about the accident.

[PremusRed]

Amazing how he's so calm reporting it. I'd be freaking right the fuck out.

And fuck the assholes making their opinions about war. Everyone needs their soapbox I guess.

[DLPBurke]

they are PROFESSIONALS. I would be as calm as that too.

[alphade10]

lol, so would I.

[silversceptile]

Right after they stopped living.

[PTOPedro]

very well done

[mattser215]

Great video

[TheFluffyDuck]

The sacrifices we make for knowledge and the benifit of mankind...vs...The sacrifices we make in an unjust war in the middle east.

More space missions. More discovery. More funding. Less war

[dave0mary]

Your opinion is nice to share. You have that freedom because of the sacrifces of soldiers in this war. ZERO attacks on our soil since 9/11. Because we're over there. Soldiers give freedom by their sacrifice. Freedom to explore the outer limits. Stop believing everything CNN says.

[TheFluffyDuck]

Really? wow. I would like to see how you would falsify your opinion. Sounds like right hogwash to me.

P.S Im Australian. I had freedom before this war as did you if you can remember.

[dave0mary]

Hey, I just found one more person who does not like to be put in their place! This is a video about a space exploration tragedy - not for your opinions of war. I gave you some straight facts and you didn't like it. Boo-Hoo.

[zer0dahero]

@TheFluffyDuck what a stupid comarison. 

[TheFluffyDuck]

@zer0dahero why?

[zer0dahero]

@TheFluffyDuck If you have to ask, you won't (or won't want to) understand.

[TheFluffyDuck]

@zer0dahero Well I got ten thumbs up for the comment soooo I guess you're right, it would be very difficult for me to understand somebody on the fringes of society :P

[zer0dahero]

@TheFluffyDuck WOW... ten thumbs up? Thats like every one in the world to you I guess, and so, that makes anyone who feel differently to you in the "fringes of society." You thnking that 10 thumbs up means you are the absolute authority as the majority of the population? Your silly self validation tells anyone reading this that you really don't have a clue.

[TheFluffyDuck]

@zer0dahero Not everybody in the world but a population, the subtle ploy of statistical analysis went over your head didn't it .Awwwww.

Well maybe instead of trolling you can explain why its a 'Stupid comarison [sic]"?

[colefaxsouth]

Chris,thanks for your time and effort. Great video.

[rojasdany99]

i have a question, was columbia returning from a mission or did it explode or something

[mduncan36]

They were returning from orbit when this happened. Google the mission and study a bit.

[AbahZabah]

Nice job with this video Chris. Like a completed puzzle of the reentry tragedy. Very informative.

[carl1066]

Such a sad sad day R I P.

[bunnyluv41]

How sad! :( RIP crew.

[stealthy347]

Wow, they were checking the launch tape once this all started happening. You can hear the lady say "we're checking a couple of hits, up ontop of the tail, nothing too bad at this point". Wow, thats sad...

[x24val]

She's talking about communication "hits" ...because the shuttle was "rolling" and the tail can get in the way, a normal proceedure.

-Chris Valentine (producer of this video)

[stealthy347]

God Bless the crew...

[FORZION]

How did the pilots mess up where are your facts? Even if they did know they had a problem they probably would not have been able to fix it.

[EndeavourLaunch]

Hey docterlecter you dipshit

THE SHUTTLE WAS ON AUTO-PILOT. The Foam strike is what caused the shuttle to disintegrate. You're the one who needs to face the facts. The shuttle's flight pattern was right down the money indicating the auto-pilot was exact.

[footballandlax864]

go to hell you peice of shit

[mduncan36]

What are you talking about you babbling ding-dong? There was nothing that any pilot anywhere could have done. When the wing falls off you got problems way beyond help.

[Aeader]

Incredible. Such a sad loss

[russnnini]

I was at Edwards for STS-1 and Columbia's first landing. How very sad for such a great ship and it's courageous crew to end this way. So unfortunate that NASA red tape and poor management decisions were the cause of this tragedy. But subsequent missions have been much safer because of Columbia's sacrafice. Nice recreation of her last moments. Thanks!

[proferic]

Thanks for posting this. Very chilling video.

[1onebastard]

CHILLING was my exact word in mind. Saddening that words can't describe. The brave Astronauts stayed calm and professional to the end. They are Space-Age Heros. We will never forget Columbia, having watched her lift and land so many times. We will never forget Challenger either. I am extremely proud of N.A.S.A. and always will be.