Columbia Disaster

Columbia disaster as seen and recorded from my driveway. Space shuttle Columbia breaking up over north Texas on 2-1-03. This video along with my video camera was sent to NASA for analysis. The zoomed in portion of the video at the very beginning has created some controversy over the years. The shuttle appears to be facing the wrong direction exposing the left side to extreme pressure. You can see the heat building up as I zoomed back out and then it began to break up. This is the only video showing the shuttle moments before the break up.

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Science & Technology

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• nasa
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• usa
• dallas
• texas

[ISIDRO123456]

@askadan ... Did u post that there was no explosion! If u made this video you should know that there was a loud sonic boom felt all throughout East Texas. It was so loud and was felt so strong that it actually woke up people from their sleep! People got up and went outside to see if something had fallen on the roof of their homes! Others thought it was a small earthquake. Others thought it was a train. I say this because I was there. So please if u don't know or aren't sure of something just sa

[ASKADAN]

@ISIDRO123456

There is a difference between a sonic boom and an explosion. There were many sonic booms. There were as many sonic booms as there were pieces of shuttle flying overhead. That's why it sounded like very loud thunder. As far as an"explosion", like I said before, the shuttle did not explode. It did however break up into thousands of pieces due to the force of the wind on areas of the shuttle that were not designed to withstand that type of force.

[ASKADAN]

@Brentsey

There really wasn't an explosion. The shuttle broke apart and burned upon re-entry.

[AJTwister97]

you can hear it. god that's awful!

[MegaMasturbator]

Did you know something was wrong when you zoomed in the first time?

[cymrutube3]

Beautiful

[mejarjar2]

Didn't the Columbia blow up before making it to space or was tht the challenger

[BikerBonno]

So peaceful on the ground right there, meanwhile the commotion of a fatal disaster is happening in the distance. Chilling

[rickysatx79]

I came here cause iam watching the omen

[redshark618]

Did you know something was wrong when you zoomed in the first time?

[tomdabom713]

best video of something on youtube without any stupid music or talking or bad camera work, good job...RIP Shuttle Crew

[alexgrinkov]

soyuz

[mary312008]

wow great footage, and i dont think they were alone that day, u can see like an object flying near the shuttle and then like a purple light beam thing that flashes in the direction of the shuttle and then the shuttle is gone, i think something shot it down. just my opinion, bless those aboard.