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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I will try to answer your question as best as I can.
This is how I might know about this:
1st, my G-Father was a key engineer in the Apollo Program, including the Lunar Landings b4 he retired.
2nd, my cousin was Judith Reznik who died on Challenger in '86.
I was a television newscaster and cuz of my connections with NASA, I'd been accepted in pre-training for the "Reporter In Space" program.
I had been sent to Adult Spacecamp at MSFC, and classes and KSC and at JSC. Aside from this, I got a ride on "The Vomit Comit." LOL
My Dad was a former WWII Pilot and I am Private Pilot too, so in my jobs as a TV Reporter, these things makes me an "EXPERT." LOL!
On that Saturday Morning I was at The Television Station where I was a Reporter then and I was watching the live feed from Nasa TV. (For KMEX-TV in LA, I was the THEIR "Space Expert" and I had to be there, actually just in case that something bad happened, and we needed to report it. That was comm
on practise and it still is at many TV Studios.
I was at work in Montgomery Al....and when a co worker told me of the tragedy... I did not Believe her... RIP Columbia crew
There was no cover up, no conspiracy, it was simply an unfortunate tragedy and a reminder that the margins of safety for space flight are still tiny. Pioneers draw the maps, as it were. RIP Columbia.