Inside Mission Control During STS-107 Columbia's Failed Re-entry and disaster

Video and audio inside mission control during the reentry of space shuttle Columbia on STS-107. Listen and watch the Flight Director and controllers as Columbia makes its final, ill-fated landing attempt. The audio is of the mission control loop, without NASA commentary, the flight controllers only. This is what you didn't hear on NASA TV.

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• re-entry
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• exploration

[1daddy57]

"GC; flight, GC; flight. Lock the doors"...that's when it really hit me...

[benp8]

@12:05 Is when Flight Director Leroy Cain is told that witnesses in Texas have witnessed the Shuttle breaking up during re-entry. At this point, he knows for sure that the Orbiter has been lost

[SlyGuyKy]

Now that is a bad day at work!

[Turnip199]

@newsboysfan222 it was their code to go into contingency.

[newsboysfan222]

why does he ask to lock the doors? to start an investigation?

[TimeLapseSteve]

Poor guy... you can really tell he's trying to deal with the stress of losing a crew and still maintaining a professional attitude. Kudos to him for keeping it together.

[cottagecheeselegs]

11:53 amazing 

[jah0524]

This is a perfect example of the failure of management not listening, once again, to the "little people" who make less money but have more knowlege and more common sense, and therefore can make better decisions. This doesn't happen just at NASA but at nearly every large corporation where "image" and "ethics" and "values and behaviors" take precedence over knowledge and the science involved in how systems work. Statistics and historical events don't take the place of direct observation.

[jelibeli100]

@DescentIntoChaos1 Thank you bud , I thought that he tries to lock something in the shuttle as he knew the astronauts were gone. However, any body knows Whose mistake was that ? who had been blamed for?

[zF15z]

@lostindiancamp there wasn't nothing they could do. They could have launched another rocket to send up supplies for a diy fix on the wing that was damaged.