STS-107 Space shuttle Mission control

STS-107 Space shuttle Mission control

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Added on Sunday 11 January 2009 22:44:40
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Mission control video of STS-107 final moments as viewed from the ground. Lock the Doors. Lock the doors really means secure all the data. Or as they say. I downloaded this video just a day or 2 after the crash from NASA web site. But I can't find it there anymore. So I decided to post it here.

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basvg1

@syeager9
Saturday 14 January 2012 06:19:02
basvg1

@Jascender @syeager9 They are Phil Engelhauf, NASA manager, and the Deputy Director of Flight Crew operations, Ellen Ochoa.
Saturday 14 January 2012 06:17:16
Ripenthon

@syeager9 GC= Ground control. FIDO=Flight Dynamics Officer. You can check it out at somewhere 01:22 and learn that FIDO made the tracking
Thursday 18 August 2011 00:15:14
smimot

Ironic, sad conclusion to this video at 2:20 when the Flight Director's assistant closes the book and they stand there with their heads down. God bless them.
Wednesday 13 July 2011 22:00:15
0720Rico

Flight director LeRoy Cain did NOT got fired ! He, Flight director Steve Stitch, Capcom Charlie Hobaugh and the others in the control room did what they could do ! LeRoy who is today The Charman of the Mission Management Team in Houston, one of the highest positions in the Shuttle Program led the following mission STS 114 as the ascent/entry flight director and Steve Stitch was ascent/entry flight director fot a lot of missions after that. So please stop saying that LeRoy was fired !!!!
Wednesday 13 July 2011 21:12:13
0720Rico

@Jascender The man was Phil Engelauf who was chief of the mission operations directorate and the lady was Ellen Ochoa who was the chief of the flight crew operations directorate.
Wednesday 13 July 2011 21:06:02
vagabond142

When the call "Lock the doors" is made, the doors ARE physically locked. Flight control is from that moment on an investigation scene and nothing, absolutely NOTHING, can enter or leave the room. Paper, hard disks, data, all of it is collected. No phone calls are made. Any non-critical network to the outside world is physically disconnected so that NOTHING changes in the room. It is THAT serious.
Sunday 10 July 2011 06:16:35
ForensicsOnTheScene

Everyone looks horrified and like they want to cry... so sad. :(
Saturday 09 July 2011 07:36:27
laronmaron98

@knightryderrwn, Sorry...below I had said "Lock the doors" was the worst phrase Flight Controllers can use in their careers. I meant, of course, Flight Directors. "Lock the doors" is a phrase ONLY the Flight Director gets to make. Everyone else just listens and obeys.
Friday 01 July 2011 04:16:35
laronmaron98

@knightryderrwn, Back in the day of Gene "Failure is Not an Option" Krantz (one of my heroes), I'm sure he DID order the doors physically locked. These days, it's a procedure call. When you hear Flight say, "Lock the doors", it means to store your data on your console and record--even if it's by pen and paper--everything you saw...heard...did...thought...before leaving. It means something terrible has occurred...and is the worst phrase a Flight Controller can use in their entire career.
Friday 01 July 2011 03:40:45
knightryderrwn

@syeager9, No....the control room doors are *PHYSICALLY* locked. I heard Gene Kranz say the same thing during the descent of Apollo 11, and he said, "I said, 'lock the control room doors,' and from that moment, no one would enter, or leave this room, until we had either *landed,* we had *aborted,* or, we had *crashed.* In a situation like this, the doors are locked (physically) as part of the investigation.
Sunday 19 June 2011 13:22:05
golds079

@TheMorrocmovies no but he's not FLIGHT DIRECTOR , for the next mission...
Friday 10 June 2011 06:29:45
matrix49A

@syeager9 Not fired there was some demotions for poor management.
Tuesday 24 May 2011 14:25:50
matrix49A

He closed the book....
Wednesday 18 May 2011 15:25:31
joesmoe71

@TheMorrocmovies The accident had nothing to do with the actions of the mission control crew
Wednesday 18 May 2011 12:00:46
TheeRealJRCroblox

OMFG Ham (i think thats ken hams ex) is a bitch. Scorch is HAWT
Sunday 08 May 2011 11:37:22
dirac33

@syeager9 No, they - Cain, Ham, and Dittemore - most certainly did not do their jobs - engineers were begging for wing surveillance and were repeatedly shot down. Dittemore remained in denial about the wing even during the post-accident news conference. It was criminal negligence in my opinion and they should have been prosecuted.
Tuesday 19 April 2011 22:30:27
Jitsu1980

@MsPandaNut Astronaut Mike Massimino said Scorch ( Astronaut Charlie Hobaugh) is one funny guy he did a great job as Comander of STS 129 Atlantis.
Friday 15 April 2011 10:26:55
twinturbonissan300zx

Terrible, they should have left columbia in orbit around earth and sent up another shuttle to meet up with them in orbit asap. Someone at nasa surely must have had the intelligence to know that a damaged wing like this would have caused major heating problems on re-entry to earth. Surely their must have been other options than too take the risk on re-entry.
Wednesday 13 April 2011 05:17:41
leif657

@syeager9 I'm no ekspert but according to my knowledge I'm pretty sure that he means literally to close the doors. Otherwise why would he call GC for that?... They're just closest to the door...
Tuesday 01 March 2011 10:30:39
joesmoe71

@Superedit Their professionalism is remarkable, you can tell it hits them all like a sledge hammer to the gut but they keep going with their duties without losing it once, it's exactly the kind of attitude you want and need in a disaster.
Friday 25 February 2011 12:54:31
Superedit

@joesmoe71 He had just talked to an off-duty controller who saw the breakup from his backyard in Texas. That was the first real confirmation that control room had that Columbia was gone.
Friday 25 February 2011 12:20:17
Superedit

@Jascender The woman is astronaut Ellen Ochoa, representing the Astronaut Office, and the man with mustache is Phil Englauf, head of the Mission Operations Directorate (flight controllers).
Friday 25 February 2011 12:19:16
Superedit

@da40flyer Phil Englauf, head of the Mission Operations Directorate (flight controllers.)
Friday 25 February 2011 12:17:41