Space shuttle Columbia was 16 minutes away from landing in Florida. It never made it. Instead, what our WFAA cameras captured was the shuttle exploding.
Oh, I'm sorry. That's not the case now. The odds of something like that happening is high in a space shuttle program. There isn't one anymore. If you still have a chance, nothing should stop you from becoming an astronaut.
Back then they showed on the news a astronaut helmet was found just sitting on the ground, totally burned, no lense, no paint, just burnt. It didn't end well for that crew, they burned to death.
@climberis1 I think your thinking of the Challenger that blew up during take-off. It eas part of the teacher in space program. It happened 1986 whereas this one had austronauts from other countries.
I can somewhat understand why so many wanted to keep the pieces they found, but myself would have wanted to give it up. Hey, if I found a gun or a body on the side of the road, I wouldn't even touch it!! Call those who will!!
Don't that FACT that they decided to wait until the Astronauts were preparing for return before they even mentioned it at all and when then Astronauts asked if they should go out and take a firsthand look, NASA said, "naaaa we think you'll be okay"... I'm sorry WHAT??? You "THINK" they will be okay. I know that one NASA worker begged to let him tell the Astronauts about it and he was warned/threatened not to do any such thing, ummm that gentleman later committed suicide.. How many NASA employees are spending the rest of their lives in prison (where they should be "in my opinion), I mean aren't they guilty of 7 murders?
@@JimMac23 No-one goes to the ISS that don't have the capability to do a walk. They even asked (once they were told, shortly before leaving the ISS) if they should go out to check and they were told "naaaa we think you'll be okay"... EDIT: That's right, my mistake, they did not visit the ISS on that mission, nevertheless the tragedy could have been avoided, control saw the issue as it happened and seeing how it was right away, I'm assuming they were well inside the abort window (not sure how all that works).. seems like just stupid little wrong decisions cause the worst... You know (I think I have this right) with the Challenger disaster, wasn't it the "O-ring" issue and they knew it was an issue so they added an additional O-ring in the design, I say, why not add 10 or 20 more or whatever but to just add 1 or 2, really?
From what I understand, they actually tested the impact of insulated foam on the tiles, and initially it seemed like it wasn't strong enough to actually punch a hole in the tile and cause damage, but when they switched up WHICH tile was impacted (from a standard wing tile to the corner tile that flowed from the wing to the main body), boom. Went straight through.
The powers at be at NASA are to blame for the 7 lives lost that awful day. They were more concerned about their schedules than the astronauts lives. Linda Ham Colombia mission mgr and Roger Dittemore will always have blood on their hands.
A rancher lady found the tape of the interior cockpit conversations that apparently showed it coming apart. There were reports of some things said before it ended. She decided to turn it over to NASA but you have to wonder if a copy was ever made.
the last tape that was salvaged (or released to the public at least) was 2 mins till predicted landing and didnt show any breakage. Apparently there was another tape that wouldnt been the last moments, but was too damaged to work
@@venus-uj1jp two minutes? That’s nonsense. The shuttle broke apart over fifteen minutes before its scheduled landing, was still over 200,000 feet in the air and over a thousand miles away from the landing site.
@@cd7071 The last message from the crew was when they were over Texas before the shuttle came apart, and the landing was due in two minutes at Cape Canaveral in Florida.
@@JimMac23 Huh? So you are saying they would have travelled from central Texas to FL in just two minutes, had they not broke apart? That’s ridiculous! The last message was at 8:59 and that was exact same time the shuttle first started coming apart. Within less than a minute it was completely destroyed. The landing in FL was not due until 9:16, about 16-17 mins later..
I was living in Dallas area. Heard a boom, thought one of the kids had fallen out of their bunk beds. Nope. Ran outside, looked up in the sky, could see a long white plume overhead. Turned on the tv, realized it was the Columbia. They were finding pieces all over the place. Very sad.
I sleep walk when I get really stressed out and for some reason when the season changes from summer to fall. I used to do this to my mom all the time. Needless to say she was kinda creeped out by me. When I was younger I sleep walked into the kitchen and handed my mom the phone and told her it was for her, about 5 seconds later it started ringing and it was my grandma calling for my mom. Also once I was napping on the couch, apparently according to my mom I sat up and asked her what she was watching, when she told me she was watching the space shuttle land, I said to her “well it’s gonna explode” then laid back down and went back to sleep…she was watching the Columbia shuttle. All I remember was her frantically shaking me awake asking what made me say that!! After that she started calling me baby Edgar Casey and to this day she still brings it up and asks me what made me say that. Sometimes it’s embarrassing because I have to warn new partners that sometimes i get up and walk around and hold conversations but I’m still asleep and won’t remember anything we talked about.
Where's the purple plasma impact? We all saw it live and that guy in SF got a pic of it on his Nikon (later collected by NASA). The shuttle didn't re-enter already on fire.
My question is this. Had they stayed in space and considered the hole it made was serious, could they have fixed it and made it back safely??? Can anyone answer that!?
I read this on Wikipedia "Before reentry, NASA managers had limited the investigation, reasoning that the crew could not have fixed the problem if it had been confirmed." No idea if that was really the case or just their speculation
Allegedly there was an offer of imaging technology from the military which could have clearly assessed the damage, allowing a rescue mission from a second shuttle being sent up. NASA refused help from the military.
@@jamesrobert4106Wrong the military denied the request for imagines because of compromising photos of the shuttle to foreign enemies. It wasn’t Nasa who denied those requests.
I had come home from Lubbock that weekend to my parents house in Fort Worth. I was sleeping in the back Rec room of their house and was just kind of laying there half awake when all the windows in the house shook and rattled a couple of times. I really didn't think much about it because they had a lot of loose windows and I thought that a door had slammed. Turns out, it was a sonic boom from debris going overhead.
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Challanger is the one that blew up on take off in the 80's. Columbia is what broke up over Texas in 2000's. I was thirteen years old. Went outside that morning and saw it happen in real time.
@@randymillhouse791 Profit is the result of expense vs. revenue. 1. Is Trump spending anything with regard to those documents? 2. Can he generate any revenue just by keeping them?
@@meganoob12 Which is irony even more because we dropped a few nukes on them and also blew them to bits. It's possible they bought the advertising space on purpose. You never know.
As soon a crew lost contact, there is a close-up video of Columbia, full of holes, peices missing and decommisioned before re-entry. That video is now missing from the internet. I think it is relevant that is was flying in prohibited air-space, attempting to cross a polar orbit it knew it wasnt supposed to.
Mission control knew there was the possibility it would happen, they never told the crew. You can see the tension on their faces . Blaming it on the fact there was an israeli astronaut in this video makes me sick to my stomach.
On February 1, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere over Texas and Louisiana, killing all seven astronauts on board. It was the second Space Shuttle mission to end in disaster, after the loss of Challenger and crew in 1986.
WOW! If you don't know, DON'T POST!! 1981 was Columbia's first flight. The Challenger disaster was in 1986 and that was BEFORE the Columbia burnt up on re-entry.
I still remember them asking citizens to turn in any found debris.
I remember them warning people to avoid debris due to hydrazine contamination
@@SuperLordHawHawThat was their excuse lol to scare people away from keeping it
@@AndrewWhite6969no its a real thing and very dangerous
@@Amongusking-ld2nh How do you know? You just take what other people say on faith.
Conspiracy theories wont get you far mate. @@AndrewWhite6969
Watching it break up on TV was very heartbreaking😩
And they are still finding pieces today. It's also what turned me away from becoming an astronaut.
Oh, I'm sorry. That's not the case now. The odds of something like that happening is high in a space shuttle program. There isn't one anymore. If you still have a chance, nothing should stop you from becoming an astronaut.
That and your GPA.
@@slime1592are you dense ? Lol
@@randymillhouse791lmao, you're mean. 😂
Yeah and the assassination of JFK turned me away from becoming the president
Back then they showed on the news a astronaut helmet was found just sitting on the ground, totally burned, no lense, no paint, just burnt. It didn't end well for that crew, they burned to death.
Really? I thought they froze or drowned.
@@randymillhouse791bruh they were burnt wdym drowned
Likely unconscious or dead because of the lack of oxygen at that height, or killed by kinetic forces first.
@@randymillhouse791 drowned? I think u may be thinking of the Challenger disaster .
@@westnblu Was sarcasm your FIRST language?
My mom ran into my bedroom and told me this happened because she knew the astronauts. One of my first memories
She know all of them I doubt it but ok keep using a disaster for your likes
@@kevinmccallum1892 you’re right. She only knew the teacher who lived down the street from us
@climberis1 I think your thinking of the Challenger that blew up during take-off. It eas part of the teacher in space program. It happened 1986 whereas this one had austronauts from other countries.
RIP to the crew
rick husband was from my hometown our airport was renamed after him after his death
I can somewhat understand why so many wanted to keep the pieces they found, but myself would have wanted to give it up. Hey, if I found a gun or a body on the side of the road, I wouldn't even touch it!! Call those who will!!
Don't that FACT that they decided to wait until the Astronauts were preparing for return before they even mentioned it at all and when then Astronauts asked if they should go out and take a firsthand look, NASA said, "naaaa we think you'll be okay"... I'm sorry WHAT??? You "THINK" they will be okay. I know that one NASA worker begged to let him tell the Astronauts about it and he was warned/threatened not to do any such thing, ummm that gentleman later committed suicide.. How many NASA employees are spending the rest of their lives in prison (where they should be "in my opinion), I mean aren't they guilty of 7 murders?
Idiot
14 deaths, don’t forget 1986
They didn't have the correct spacesuits for a spacewalk.
@@JimMac23 No-one goes to the ISS that don't have the capability to do a walk. They even asked (once they were told, shortly before leaving the ISS) if they should go out to check and they were told "naaaa we think you'll be okay"... EDIT: That's right, my mistake, they did not visit the ISS on that mission, nevertheless the tragedy could have been avoided, control saw the issue as it happened and seeing how it was right away, I'm assuming they were well inside the abort window (not sure how all that works).. seems like just stupid little wrong decisions cause the worst... You know (I think I have this right) with the Challenger disaster, wasn't it the "O-ring" issue and they knew it was an issue so they added an additional O-ring in the design, I say, why not add 10 or 20 more or whatever but to just add 1 or 2, really?
Becoming an astronaut you know this could happen.
accidents do happen but it's annoying they did not check the shuttle properly while in space; this one could have been esily avoided
From what I understand, they actually tested the impact of insulated foam on the tiles, and initially it seemed like it wasn't strong enough to actually punch a hole in the tile and cause damage, but when they switched up WHICH tile was impacted (from a standard wing tile to the corner tile that flowed from the wing to the main body), boom. Went straight through.
The powers at be at NASA are to blame for the 7 lives lost that awful day. They were more concerned about their schedules than the astronauts lives. Linda Ham Colombia mission mgr and Roger Dittemore will always have blood on their hands.
A rancher lady found the tape of the interior cockpit conversations that apparently showed it coming apart. There were reports of some things said before it ended. She decided to turn it over to NASA but you have to wonder if a copy was ever made.
the last tape that was salvaged (or released to the public at least) was 2 mins till predicted landing and didnt show any breakage.
Apparently there was another tape that wouldnt been the last moments, but was too damaged to work
@@venus-uj1jp two minutes? That’s nonsense. The shuttle broke apart over fifteen minutes before its scheduled landing, was still over 200,000 feet in the air and over a thousand miles away from the landing site.
@@cd7071 hey idk man i just watched a documentary on bbc, your probs more educated than me.
if you havent watched it tho i do reccomend it!
@@cd7071 The last message from the crew was when they were over Texas before the shuttle came apart, and the landing was due in two minutes at Cape Canaveral in Florida.
@@JimMac23 Huh? So you are saying they would have travelled from central Texas to FL in just two minutes, had they not broke apart? That’s ridiculous! The last message was at 8:59 and that was exact same time the shuttle first started coming apart. Within less than a minute it was completely destroyed. The landing in FL was not due until 9:16, about 16-17 mins later..
I have always wondered if the tiles were checked before the Voyage. And, how old were the tiles.
"Exploading" reference around 1:15 into the video? Is that the most accurate term to use? I prefer "break up".
Rest in peace all 7 astronauts
I'm from East Texas and I think a few pieces were found near where I lived.
I was living in Dallas area. Heard a boom, thought one of the kids had fallen out of their bunk beds. Nope. Ran outside, looked up in the sky, could see a long white plume overhead. Turned on the tv, realized it was the Columbia. They were finding pieces all over the place. Very sad.
I sleep walk when I get really stressed out and for some reason when the season changes from summer to fall. I used to do this to my mom all the time. Needless to say she was kinda creeped out by me. When I was younger I sleep walked into the kitchen and handed my mom the phone and told her it was for her, about 5 seconds later it started ringing and it was my grandma calling for my mom. Also once I was napping on the couch, apparently according to my mom I sat up and asked her what she was watching, when she told me she was watching the space shuttle land, I said to her “well it’s gonna explode” then laid back down and went back to sleep…she was watching the Columbia shuttle. All I remember was her frantically shaking me awake asking what made me say that!! After that she started calling me baby Edgar Casey and to this day she still brings it up and asks me what made me say that. Sometimes it’s embarrassing because I have to warn new partners that sometimes i get up and walk around and hold conversations but I’m still asleep and won’t remember anything we talked about.
this happened to me under entirely different circumstances
Where's the purple plasma impact? We all saw it live and that guy in SF got a pic of it on his Nikon (later collected by NASA). The shuttle didn't re-enter already on fire.
On launch piece of insulated foam
I SPENT 30 DAYS IN HEMPHILL TEXAS ON THE SHUTTLE RECOVERY...IT WAS AN HONOR TO HELP OUT..WE CAME FROM NORTH CENTRAL IDAHO..
Liar
So sad
Such a sad day.
My question is this. Had they stayed in space and considered the hole it made was serious, could they have fixed it and made it back safely??? Can anyone answer that!?
I read this on Wikipedia "Before reentry, NASA managers had limited the investigation, reasoning that the crew could not have fixed the problem if it had been confirmed." No idea if that was really the case or just their speculation
Allegedly there was an offer of imaging technology from the military which could have clearly assessed the damage, allowing a rescue mission from a second shuttle being sent up.
NASA refused help from the military.
It was a big hole and they didn't have the materials to fix it. A rescue shuttle would have to be sent up to rescue the astronauts.
Honestly, probably not.
@@jamesrobert4106Wrong the military denied the request for imagines because of compromising photos of the shuttle to foreign enemies.
It wasn’t Nasa who denied those requests.
I don't know why I barely remember this but I recall challenger easily
Everyone blamed themselves for this. Guys were breaking down crying hysterically.
I don't wanna see you go down like this again
Except it didn’t explode…
The military planted explosives in the shuttle just in case the astronauts don't want to go along with the plan 😉
Somebody saw that camera footage to the end. Must have been horrible.
no, the entire footage can be found here on youtube. it cuts out before the shuttle breaks apart
But minutes later they would all be outside
I had come home from Lubbock that weekend to my parents house in Fort Worth. I was sleeping in the back Rec room of their house and was just kind of laying there half awake when all the windows in the house shook and rattled a couple of times. I really didn't think much about it because they had a lot of loose windows and I thought that a door had slammed. Turns out, it was a sonic boom from debris going overhead.
Me: Torch lady you can't leave me.
Torch lady: I won't, son! I never... Me: NOOOOO
The sonic boom from the shuttle when it exploded shook windows on buildings on the ground. My dad was at a Starbucks and heard it.
Sorry to hear that your Dad was at a Starbucks. My condolences.
Why would the shuttle have generated a sonic boom the moment it disintegrated? Sonic booms occur when an object exceeds the speed of sound.
This guy actually trying to garner attention and likes from a disaster but can’t even tell a proper lie wow just wow 2023 in a nutshell folks
@@randymillhouse791🤣🤣🤣 good one!
Liar
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2003??? Thought that was in the 80’s
Challanger is the one that blew up on take off in the 80's. Columbia is what broke up over Texas in 2000's. I was thirteen years old. Went outside that morning and saw it happen in real time.
@@joekickass2728 ohhhh what a horrible thing that you had to see it .. wow! And yea I was thinking of the teacher that died, you are right
Times flies so, so fast these days!
Wrong Shuttle disaster.
@@leehill9922 I guess when you get old, you start to get the decades mixed up😌
I wanted go to space until I saw this
Amazing people would keep parts like a bunch of profiteerers
Americans.
How does a person profit from keeping something?
@@mikemartin5749 Ask Document Hoarding Trump.
@@randymillhouse791 Profit is the result of expense vs. revenue. 1. Is Trump spending anything with regard to those documents? 2. Can he generate any revenue just by keeping them?
@mikemartin5749 We just not gonna mention all the documents found at the several locations belonging to Biden?!
Learn about the shuttle s too so sad if they known what happened before could had save it or put one up there too
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It was not an explosion.
😢
Theyre straight up lying
"It's easy to love a Subaru!"
Yeah, a car commercial shown before the Shuttle being blown to bits. VERY AMERICAN!
It's also kinda ironic because Subaru is the japanese name of a specific cluster of stars (hence the logo)
@@meganoob12 Which is irony even more because we dropped a few nukes on them and also blew them to bits. It's possible they bought the advertising space on purpose. You never know.
Now, astronauts from the US fly to the International Space Station on Russian Soyuz rockets proving superiority of Slavic over Germanic scientists
Space Shuttle Columbia didn’t “explode.” Clueless media talking heads.
Islamaphobia during this is crazy…
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according to utube all alive and well
That asinine conspiracy theory is about a completely different mission derp.
Nice view 😂
Yaa.. From your Name, i can understand this is a nice View for you,MOHAMED.
The military detonated and blew up the shuttle because the astronauts saw something up there that they weren't supposed to see .
thats just sad that you believe that
As soon a crew lost contact, there is a close-up video of Columbia, full of holes, peices missing and decommisioned before re-entry. That video is now missing from the internet. I think it is relevant that is was flying in prohibited air-space, attempting to cross a polar orbit it knew it wasnt supposed to.
That was made up for a show that reenacted the breakup. There's no real close up views.
That was a fake .
@@trevorsimpkins3142 You are dreaming. The movie Sandra Bullock stared in came years after
Seconds before Columbia .disintegrated. it flew within ~300 miles of a HAARP site in Colorado (@ +40° 10' 54.00", -104° 43' 30.00").
Mission control knew there was the possibility it would happen, they never told the crew. You can see the tension on their faces . Blaming it on the fact there was an israeli astronaut in this video makes me sick to my stomach.
Evidence tells the story that no one hurt no one died sry really really sry
No evidence exists for that. You are dishonoring the memory of dead heroes.
Democrats fault
Actually it was trumps fault according to the democrats
For a piece of insulation foam hitting a carbon-carbon heat shield? I didn't even know american politicians were sophisticated enough to do that.
George Bush was president when it happen.
No. Russians fault!
12 April 1981 - not 2003
On February 1, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere over Texas and Louisiana, killing all seven astronauts on board. It was the second Space Shuttle mission to end in disaster, after the loss of Challenger and crew in 1986.
Except no. That is a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT event...
It definitely was 2003
That was Columbia's first flight, not its last.
WOW! If you don't know, DON'T POST!! 1981 was Columbia's first flight. The Challenger disaster was in 1986 and that was BEFORE the Columbia burnt up on re-entry.
Safed jhoot... White lie.. 👀👀💀🦢✌👈👀
What the heck are you rambling about?
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