Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster Pt 3: The aftermath - BBC

Part three of six. Former Mission Controller Jim Oberg is interviewed for the moving BBC documentary The Last Flight of the Columbia which looks at the space shuttle disaster and its aftermath. Watch more high quality videos on the new BBC Worldwide YouTube channel here: http://www.youtube.com/bbcworldwide

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[seploud]

Going to space is a very dangerous thing, they knew that when they signed up.

[telj1]

This is one memory that is forever etched in my mind. Made me vary sad to see this as a kid!

[clintonearlwalker]

@JoanCollins2009 I read that they found body parts. There is a vid on YouTube showing the Columbia shedding debris over Arizona, it didn't completely disintegrate until it was over Texas, so I would imagine there were pieces scattered for over hundreds of miles. Interestingly, I read there was some type of worms in a dish on the shuttle as an experiment, the dish was found and the worms survived, I think they were microscopic though.

[JoanCollins2009]

did they find the bodys

[amgen52]

@bustsomecaps I've never been on wikipedia for anything shuttle related. I spent 25 yrs. working on the shuttle and two years on the investigation.

[bustsomecaps]

@aimhigh59 how naive calling yourself talented, nice info any can read the wikipedia and come up with this information.

[bishop51807]

@aimhigh59 tiles or panels all I did was got the two mixed up I saw the liftoff damage clip you just pretty much summed up the entire video of what I already just saw on nova, GOOD JOB!!

[aimhigh59]

@bishop51807 Scientist had nothing to do with the reports. Many talented ppl including myself contributed to the reports. The leading edge of the wing was damaged at launch. There are no tiles on the leading edge of the wing. There are tiles under the wing. The leading edge is made of giant panels of reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC). A hole was punched through on launch. During re-entry, the plasma burned the wing from the inside out causing the wing to structurally fail.

[bishop51807]

@aimhigh59 Read up on what? you ass holes are always saying read more,read the truth, read history, well read what? refrence for me please because thats what it says on NASA's official accident page. and no matter what you tell me to read you cant make me see your own twisted interpretation VS the accident reports from the scientist! You must be some conspiracy theories or like tube user TheTypicalGirl, a racist cunt!