Columbia Re-Entry Analysis

This video combines video taken across the USA during the fateful Columbia re-entry with data from NASA regarding the shuttle's sensors, communications, etc. Details the entire re-entry event from start to finish. Extremely interesting and sad.

Please visit the website in the end credits for more information.

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• NASA

[3bhui]

@dirac33 Linda Ham was demoted after Columbia. She was stated as having a terse attitude with other workers, cutting people off mod-sentence, implanting seeds in the minds of others "but this isn't a flight safety issue, right?"

If you have watched many of the shuttle press events on NASA-TV, you'll note that journalists rarely asked Ham any questions. Usually she would sit there quiet through the whole event, even though she was the mission manager.

[3bhui]

@brenbaroque Edit out the beginning of that audio passage where noise makes it sound as if it started with an 'F' sound. Without that first part, to me it sounds more like 'and uh Hou'.

[brenbaroque]

Does anyone understand what is said at about 5:44 because that sounded like a voice from the shuttle? Sounded to me like "feel'n the heat."

[luzdeluna1985]

How can you know that you will be dead in less than one minute and stay so calm??  Thats really scary!

[dirac33]

@cptexas1 Not quite correct - three people dropped the ball - program director Ron Dittemore, and flight directors Linda Ham and Leroy Cain - all should have faced criminal charges IMO for negligence, because the people who know - engineers - were BEGGING for surveillance on the wing, just as those same engineers had BEGGED to forgo the Challenger launch in cold weather. The simple expedient of poking one's head out the hatch would have revealed in stark clarity the damage to the left wing.

[cptexas1]

In watching the 6-part PBS presentation, I found it unimaginable that what seems like a trivial piece of foam would impact the leading edge with over a ton of force. Many people dropped the ball on this one... Sad.

[cptexas1]

I know this was posted years ago, but have been interested in learning more. I thought this was very well done, albeit difficult to watch. Godspeed, Crew of Columbia.

[Alexfan14]

@DavidCubero Not to offend you or anything, but if your cousin was really Judith Resnik, why would you misspell her last name?

[mikemoair]

@LCPStud I dont know but u have a 2 pound object hitting it at 500 miles and hour, just me but that should be check out.

[LCPStud]

@mikemoair

What the fuck are you babbling about?

How does your walk-around of your rental Cessna 172 have anything to do with what happened to the Columbia?