Columbia Disaster CNN Live Coverage

Live coverage on CNN (International) as Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) breaks up upon reentry on February 1, 2003.

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• Columbia Disaster
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[xtremeimport]

the CNN reporter says it looks strangely similar to something..I couldnt make out what he said...anyone help out??

[ChickenNoodleFan]

@xtremeimport "It reminds me a little bit of when MIR went down". MIR was the Russian space station that was decomissioned by letting it burn in the earth's atmosphere. During that process it broke into several pieces, which apparently looked very similar.

[laronmaron98]

The CNN anchor clearly wants NASA to acknowledge that the orbiter disintegrated.

Compare this to 1963, when Walter Cronkite refused to report the death of JFK until he received official confirmation. He didn't push for answers he knew his Dallas affiliates didn't have.

Boy, have things changed. I miss the objectivity our news once had.

[jazzguitar2010]

@laronmaron98 Because today there is dumb competition between cable news networks to get the story out first. Media has becoming a marketing frenzy rather than news, it's all about ratings. Brutal.

[GoongalaGoongala]

@krazykhrisya Investing in NASA isn't a waste of money. Whats a waste of money is the enormous amount of money we spend on the Military. If we took just a quarter of what we spend on military funding and gave it to NASA they would be able to do so many amazing things.

We definitely have our priorities straight.

[qasion]

How ironic, an Israeli got his ass fried over a city called Palastine.

[krazykhrisya]

@warfrek93 reap the benefits quite yet... 9 years today, rest in peace, crew of Columbia.

[krazykhrisya]

@warfrek93 Everyone just thinks it's a waste of money, if only they realized how little NASA (and other countries' agencies) really cost, I mean comparitively, it's nothing. Military budgets for like a week would cover nasa for a year, yet you still have more people saying space is a waste of money. Lets be honest, there are immediate things the money could be spent on (world hunger), but if it's not going to be spent on that, why not Space? Space is important for our future, we just can't

[krazykhrisya]

@619badazz13 Really? Don't do this on this video.

[krazykhrisya]

@DarkShumihaza YOU, shut. The. Fuck. Up.

[TurboTsunami19]

@warfrek93 I agree.

But I'd go further and say that people don't care about space. So many people don't even know that there are billions of galaxies out there, and probably trillions of other planets like Earth. They don't know that our Sun's atmosphere is going to expand and destroy our star system, or that around the same time a galaxy thats heading straight for ours and will collide with us.

Space is beautiful. I wish more people cared about it, we need to get out there!

[Esudao]

@laronmaron98 sure, but well did an image of kennedy's head with a bullet wound float around that time ?

yet here there was obviously something going wrong, because even amateurs know, that when multiple peaces of the one space shuttle are visible and communication was lost for over 30 minutes, take that into combination, and every news man (even from the kennedy days) would bring what everyone is thinking into discussion.

so it's a far stretch to compare those two news stories.... 

[ItsRDMFG]

@xtremeimport or the discover accident that happend back in like 83'.