Nine years ago and it is just like yesterday when I heard of Columbia and prayed for the crew as I pray today for the rest of the rest of their souls .God's blessings go to those who spent their lives for the sake of making others feel glad about them whether on earth or in heaven and proud of them as honored symbols.
To know all those blips and beeps (at 5:33) ... That is when the shuttle was being destroyed. :( So sad. I also remember the Challenger explosion, though I was pretty young (under ten.) Very sad days, both.
@alexhamster1134 Yes if I was in charge I would have let the crew in on it and put a 2 man crew in a rescue mission to transfer the crew and bring them down and/or tried to repair the leading edge. I'm sure there was noway to repair it though. From what I've read there could have been a space shuttle up with a 5 day overlap. It should have been tried.
@Renegade2283 "We"? Were you involved in the project? The people involved did it, and I'm pretty sure their mental capacity is completely unrelated to where they live.
@jmf12b First off you dont give us a good name with that attitude. And second how would putting your head in microwave do any harm. you would have to be able to close it to turn it on. sorry but you make americans look like idiots
@TheGuitardude94 It's a lot better now that the volunteers are sharper in keeping tabs on bullshit, but I know what you mean. About five years ago I was researching xenophobia; someone had inserted a page about the admitted genocide here in Australia and tied the current population and all of the population of the time into it. It was a rant. I took a day to edit it. If I'd written it straight off it would have taken an hour, but I kept the bits of truth he'd written. The trouble with commons.
@TheGuitardude94 Ham maybe shouldn't have been charged with manslaughter, if that's what you don't agree with. I forgot I'd posted that and retract it. The reason I retract it is that there was no way they could have fixed it and management perhaps decided to let the crew enjoy their mission, not to worry all the way through that they would die. So if my statement about management being charged offended you I am sorry.
@TheGuitardude94 Tell me politely what you don't agree with and I'll get back to you. I don't restrict my research to Wikipedia. I also get up NASA, including their very thorough reports made after the disaster. There's no need for rudeness.
Cheers.
Dude, Aliens planted bombs on Columbia. There wasn't anyone on board, they were abducted by the aliens. That's why there weren't any bodies. And that's also why NASA didn't release very much about the accident, the crew reported sightings of an "Unidentifiable Saucer, with what looks like lights circling around the cockpit" I am a supernatant for the C.I.A and I am in danger because I'm telling you this. If you'll excuse me, I have to change my identity now, goodbye.
Ham and the NASA management should have been charged with manslaughter. Read Wikipedia and find out why. There are so many uninformed people posting here. Grow up!
@alexhamster1134 Wake up.
You'd splatter if you ejected at 17000 mph. The ejection option had been removed years before because even the NASA engineers had worked that out.
@Steelmax6 a suitcase-size piece of thermal insulation foam broke off from the External Tank (ET), striking Columbia's left wing reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC) panels
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