Columbia Reentry Reconstruction (with some transcription)

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Space Shuttle Columbia's disasterous reentry "realtime" video reconstruction. Compilation of the amateur videos by Chris Valentine. More videos at www.chrisvalentines.com

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• shuttle
• disaster
• crash
• space
• reentry
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• challenger

[antimatterXXXIII]

Even at the very end, seconds from the breakup, Cain sits in complete denial of what is happening - he says it must be instrumentation! Unbelievable. Thanks x24val for this outstanding video.

[x24val]

I'll defend Cain's reaction. He has said that everyone at MCC that morning were putting the instrument dropoff together with the foam strike video, but their jobs are to remain calm and do whatever they can. Getting emotional after assuming the worst would have done no good. They are professionals.

Foam strikes on the shuttle had occured on almost all flights. This one was particularly large. They should have had more concern. Still I think you are being too harsh ...hindsight is amazing!

[antimatterXXXIII]

The transcription "feeling the heat.." is wrong - he says "And, uh Hou..." as people do when they are continuing an on-going conversation after a pause. His communication was cut off because the tail was between the VHF transmitter on the orbiter and the TDRS relay satellite they use to communicate.

[x24val]

It was not comm between Husband and McCool...

Google "columbia shuttle audio" and read my opinion. THis page of mine is loaded with audio files for your examining

[BammerD]

@antimatterXXXIII :

The transcript at 5:44 is correct. He does say "Feelin' the heat." It sounds NOTHING like "And, uh Hou..."

[stinkbugist]

great vid x2. even if i knew it was gonna come apart on reentry i still would have took the mission just for the chance to go to space. bobby.

[funkmasterjee]

@antimatterXXXIII Yes but you have to understand that there was no indication that insulation was missing therefore it was not suspected that super hot 2000 degree air was getting into the wing. The most likely explaination would be an electrical problem with instumentation

[RussoTuristo7]

wow cool

[craps2010]

This video shows that the shuttle came apart over Palo Pinto county, Texas, and yet I personally talked to people who said they saw it come apart over southern Tarrant county, which is about sixty miles to the east.

[ussgrisham]

Does anyone have the home video taken with the great telephoto lens on it that when the camera zooms in you can actually see the shuttle? I saw this footage that same day but have not seen it ANYWHERE sense. It was when she was in TX right before she came undone. It was shot from the south looking right at her engine bells and vertical stab she was pointing north yet heading east.

[HeliosPhoenix]

@40390576 I think the context of "Feeling the Heat" wasn't a literal fealing of heat. It was CDR. Husband's subtle acknowledgement that his bird might have a problem, think of it in the vein of "Houston we've had a problem" on Apollo 13.

Keep in mind that the crew might have recieved indications that there was unsuually high drag on the left wing, and might have seen some debris coming off the shuttle. So it's not a certain thing that they had no idea there was a problem until it was too late

[missystar013]

"I don't see anything out of the ordinary."

and yet, the hydraulics were already messed up. ._.

[Dracarot]

@x24val How were you able to get all these independent films of Columbia's last flight do you/did you have a group of friends that watched all these shuttle returns as a hobby before this disaster or something. Pretty good work there.

[av8n4life]

@TheChumpBox To add--obviously the "hit" on comm was the result of loss of telemetry on vehicle at breakup, but that's not INCO's job to infer.