Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster Pt 2: Final descent - BBC

Part two of six. This clip begins with the astronauts on board preparing for the shuttle's descent to earth and ends with the haunting scenes at NASA's Mission Control at the moment disaster struck. Moving footage from the BBC Horizon programme The Last Flight of the Columbia. Watch more high quality videos on the new BBC Worldwide YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/bbcworldwide

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[2003SCT]

@crossy70 Hey, my taxes had to pay for your education and that was a waste since you aren't even able to spell shuttle correctly. I want my money back for that. :)

[luckyStrike89ru]

@dowlad100 So? Israeli government shot it down to make it fall on a city called Palestine in Texas? And? Whats the point. There are cities in US called Moscow, Paris etc. No one needs your conspiracy theories here you islamist freak so fuck off.

[DeltaV2TLI]

@DeltaV2TLI Duh, I apparently can't pull my head out of my arse to type...the part of the tape closest to vehicular breakup was completely destroyed or damaged so badly that none of it was viewable.

[DeltaV2TLI]

@snico Uhh no, the footage was recovered in the search for debris...they were using a handheld video camera to record. The portions of the tape close to vehicular breakup were damaged by the heat of reentry and the part of tape closest to reentry destroyed.

[DeltaV2TLI]

Are they really playing music from Alien?

[snico]

@MrComputergeek3 The footage was downlinked to control...not physically filmed in the cockpit.

[MegaAROx]

ESOS CONTROLADORES DE VUELO, TAN REALES....

[65FALCONSG]

Most importantly, terrible waste of seven lives and secondly, terrible waste of money with just a little gained over what we (US space program) had already learned from gemini and appollo. Almost one billion dollars per space shuttle flight when you look at the total real cost?! C'mon, man!!!!

[BornAgain77757]

Absolutely no sense of urgency, two comments, Columbia is u beautiful

spaceship preforming magnificently, also, sure is noisy in here isn't it,

before these comments were made, the Shuttle wing was already

melting, from the inside out.

[BornAgain77757]

They needed; A SPACE WALK!

[BornAgain77757]

You are right, their was a Shuttle break up.

[musclecarluvr1]

It didnt explode, it disentegrated during re entry, the most critical time. Narrator says it exploded 38 mi. above ground. And the reconstructed video shows it exploding.