RIP and wish you the best in the new life.. . you'll never have to worry about someone else's decisions made for you . . may you never fly in fear. . rest in peace and love you always . .
Without those who have the urge to extend our knowledge, to find what is out there & have the courage to follow their dreams, the human race would never have evolved to the highly developed state of today. Some of those courageous individuals who followed that dream gave their all for that knowledge. We should all be greatful to them, and remember them, for that thirst for knowledge and hunger for adventure which came at so high a price.
@aimhigh59 Thank you for your reply. You obviously have more knowledge on this topic than the average youtuber (and certainly more than I have.) Now I have many questions, but I'm afraid to ask them for fear of the answers. Ignorance may or may not be bliss, but in this case perhaps what I don't know won't hurt me. :(
@kayper54 Columbia wasnt the same kind of accident. The crew module separated like Challengers intact. But Columbia was still going thru re-entry. So the crew module broke up and burned peeling kind of like an onion. With pressure suits and the emergency O2 flowing if activated, they could have survived a minute or two.
"They" keep hinting more and more that the crew didn't die almost instantly, that they DID know what was happening and suffered, just like the Challenger crew. We were so certain for so long that nothing could have survived that explosion, but eventually they were willing to show us which part of the falling debris was the intact crew cabin, the crew all more than likely still conscious. I don't want to hear the same thing said 10 years from now about Columbia.
@davemckiernan Columbia was never modified to dock to Mir or go to the ISS. She was to heavy to fly the northern trajectory. The other orbiters are lighter. The EDO config was at the rear of the payload bay and was used on STS-107. With out pursuing to visually look for damage or using the EVA suits to do a space walk Nasa simply knew nothing about damage. The crew was told about a hit after they got on orbit like all crews are. They simply didnt pursue it enough. I am an expert on the subject.
@aimhigh59 I didn't know the arm wasn't present. One of the three possible configs would have left the MIR docking adapter in place, but they removed it - perhaps to save weight or to make room for the EDO? I wonder if they might have done things differently had the adapter still been there? They didn't really have any choice but to risk de-orbit as far as I can tell at least. I'm no expert though.
I remember hearing this. It was just a really loud boom. Since were in a drought in Texas, A piece of this was found in a lake a couple days ago in Nacogdoches,Texas. Since the water levels went down 11 ft, it just floated to the surface.
just watched this for the first time and am in tears. I am sure they are in heaven as angels and i hope and pray their families and loved ones have healed from the loss.
A piece of debris was found yesterday, August 1, 2011, in a lake in Texas, eight years after that painful, tragic accident last February 1, 2011. It reminded me of the Columbia STS-107 crew. It makes me want to cry again. You will never be forgotten. :'(
@davemckiernan The arm didnt fly on that mission. When a Spachab flies, the arm does not to save weight. Columbia did not have an external airlock or docking adapter. In its STS-107 configuration, it had a tunnel to Spacehab. The airlock was internal. Columbia was too heavy to fly to the ISS and was never going there. All orbiters had internal airlocks initially when built and were changed once the ISS construction was started.
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