I read a story about Kalpana's life growing up. Her mother said that all her essays in school were about the stars and planets and outer space. She planned for this career all of her life. It was her dream.
She came from a place where women education was not considered important especially in that era(70s) , yet she did allll that. I have a huge respect for her and her parents
@@Supermax2206 lmao dumbass. They were re-entering earth. Why would you think their dream would be to re-enter earth? This really shows your lack of knowledge surrounding this disaster. dumbass
Watching people's final moments is really weird. Regardless of weather they felt any pain or not, what happened to these people minutes after this tape ends is unimaginable.
That's haunting watching these poor people going through the check list, joking around, loving life, having no idea they only have minutes to live. Haunting!
@@bigjockknewheknew3882 the tiles that protect the shuttle during re-entry were damaged during lift off. Fire entered the port side wing I believe. It was all over for the crew at that point.
Right...Hell, the Challenger explosion was like thirty five years ago, and I remember watching it live, on TV at my junior high school. That seems like it happened yesterday, as well...
@@davidgordon702 i watched challenger explode everyone was excited seeing the boosters blow off till I told them no it blew up the rockets don't separate that early and back then they didn't show the srb sep
The communication between the crew showed how professional but relatable they were. It's kind of eerie how Chawla kept recording the view from the window and how the pilot kept mentioning how bright it became.
@@imEden0 only if the angle is correct, the heat shields on the underside of the hull can take it, the windows can't therefore need to be in the lee of the plasma.
Your suspicion is likely correct, and I don't know that we should ever expect to see it. If NASA has reviewed it then all the scientific use for it has been gained. There's no reason to release it for public consumption to satisfy our curiosity.
@@davidjack7418 Not that I would ever consider doing this, but NASA being a government agency, if you would request any additional information under the (freedom of information act of 1974) they should be required to provide it.
@@johnshirley8099 Key word "should", but govt agencies are still selective since they continue to think even they are above any type of law. It's gross.
Rest in peace, Columbia crew: Rick Husband William McCool Ilan Ramon David Brown Michael Anderson Laurel Clark Kalpana Chawla Your lives will never be forgotten.
@@mydknyghthunter925 It was put in their mind to say that by the higher power because of what was going to happen. Also made Miles O'Brian say ,"hit Louisiana" instead of ,"go over". Everything is divine intervention, orchestrated by a higher power and we are nothing but puppets. Now you know the truth but you probably aren't supposed to believe it as such.
The tape stopped recording (or was rendered unviewable) about 10 mins before breakup. They probably didn't have any sign during this tapes duration. Some point after crossing the coast a large piece broke off that slowly backed away from the vehicle (per ground observers video) that would have bathed the entire upper crew cabin in bright light. They would then know something was seriously wrong.
It looked to me like the tape was reaching the end of viewable footage. I see some digital drop out right at the end there. Who knows.. you may be right though.
Of course they have the rest of the tape but like said above, out of respect they won't show it to the public and that's how it should be although we're all curious
One of the astronauts was recording the entire reentry and landing. I also believe NASA has the complete video of the breakup, but no one wants to see the astronauts screaming as they are dying.
I served in the US Navy with Willie McCool on board the USS Coral sea 1987/1988 we were in the same carrier group squadrons , Great guy and naval aviator as well . RIP Columbia crew !
A pilot to the end, given the attempted restart of APU #2 to get the hydraulics back online (switch throws had to have been done by him) during the orbiter's final moments. I have a lot of admiration for the professionalism of the crew. It's inspiring.
they are heroes since if the space shuttle challenge was successful they could have studied a lot more in space in advanced and technically speaking studying space means there is something you can prevent from happening in the future saving other people's lives such as NASA's spacecrew studying about asteroids in an successful take off and solar activity and it's dangers. They do this to come up for solutions to minimize the effects of radiation from high solar flares and incoming asteroids like we have today now (ozone layer protection, future asteroid catchers) because of them volunteering to this challenge just to study about space, and their sudden sacrifice from NASA's Ignorance. not only that NASA learned their lessons. they are now more strict about spaceship shuttle safety and mechanics and on how to prevent this from happening ever again
Brenton Draper What the fuck you talking about? They get paid good salaries but not millions, and they put their life more at risk than almost everyone else in the working world.
the horror was pretty quick. that amount of decompression is not just immediate deep unconsciousness but unrecoverable unconsciousness. Followed by broken necks and massive had trauma (the type of helmets and restrain used actually made profound head and neck trauma more likely than no helmet at all). They probably were deeply unconscious with the first spin (g-force of about 30 gs). The investigative report lists about five things that were each roundly lethal each, all occurring pretty quickly. Most of us will die in some hospital or hospice bed, gone on morphine after having accomplished very little in life whereas these people worked to be at, and enjoyed being at the pinnacle of human technical achievement. if you count all accidents of people who have been in orbit, that is about 562 people and about 3% have died as a result. if you count all people died in training and non orbital flight, then you count all people in training programs (about 1,800) and then that is also about 3% death rate. Really it is dangerous but the risk has been fairly low say compared to being in a ship during the age of exploration of the seas
I can't help thinking of their family and friends watching this, clinging for meaning and trying to be close to them through this video... I pray for their family and friends to find peace...
And theres a very very likely possibility that there is more gruesome or disturbing but will never be realised do to there family/government classifying it.
In another timeline the people on the ground would have taken the risk seriously for a change and not stepped a second time into the Challenger trap of thinking everything turns out to be okay just because it has in the past. Instead we would have seen either an Apollo 13 style improvisation on fixing the heat shield or even more spectacular an automated shuttle launch of the Endevour a few days later, returning with Columbia's crew, which the abandonned shuttle would disintegrate above the ocean.
@tgmforum As far as I know the US shuttle could launch remote controlled (like every other rocket, so I am not sure what should be any more "daunting" about that than what has already been done) but was incapable to land (unlike the russian Buran, which had the ability to do both, more than a decade earlier). No unmanned landing was needed. And you are wrong when you think one could not have learned from Challenger, as in both cases Nasa relied on getting away with a margin of error which turned out to be fatal and in both cases the worries were handwaved away in a similar way, to let the worries not get into the way of the turnaround, even though they were aware of the problem in both cases. Knowing about things *before* they happen is not hindsight.
Two of the most chilling moments of this video for me... @ 14:14 where the pilot mentions how noisey and bright it is @ the front of the ship, and the lady says.. "not nearly as much as the back"...which we now know was the hole on the bottom by the wing reacting to the heat exposure... And the second was @ 15:15 where the guy jokes about "you definitely don't want to be outside right now" and they all laugh... Not knowing that's exactly what would happen as the ship would break apart shortly after... That is absolutely horrifying!!! 😖
I definitely agree with what you said. I found one part around midway in the video to be not haunting or disturbing or anything but to just make me think about how quick things can change. It was a Male voice said something I couldn't make out then he said "dont worry about it we have plenty of time" and then no less then 5 minutes later they all were gone. What they were doing was dangerous so that thought was probably in the back of their minds knowing something could happen at any moment but I guess it was the choice of words used that made me think about it like that. If that makes any sense at all
Firstname Lastname is allowed Yeah dude I noticed that too... he was talking about the members not getting their gloves on yet (which would’ve made their suits pressurized), but that “they had plenty of time”. Had their suits been on properly, they may have had to endure more of the terror while conscious
within millaseconds of the first hole larger than hacokypuck and everyone in that shuttle would have deep unconsciousness even if they had their flight helmets and gloves on. Those suits were not made for 200,000 feet
@@TakesbyJake Everything they were seeing out the windows in this video was expected and happens on every re-entry. One of them even says "wait till you start seeing the swirl patterns". The orientation of those cockpit windows would not allow them to see either of the wings. The wings are very far back on the structure and do not extend out very far. This video appears to cut off before any recognition of any problem came up. There was not even any acknowledgement of the temp sensor drop outs yet which can be heard on the ground control recordings. Right up until the end of the video there isn't even any notable turbulence.
I’ve always been obsessed with nasa, and I followed this crew along their journey. They were so sweet and joyful. That day was singed into my memory, so seeing this the first time made me sick to my stomach. I missed most of what was said because of that, so I rewatched. The second time I found myself smiling when they said “I see you in the mirror” “I see you, too!”, and then a gruff “okay” from Commander Husband and they all snapped back into focusing.They were so happy. That’s the way I want to go out, having the time of my life doing my life’s dream. God bless their loved ones.
@@ladesigner8764 Thanks for letting me know about the doc! I’m kind of scared to watch it tbh. NASA absolutely murdered them. I watched the hearings as they happened and it was just unbelievable that they could let them die like that. I don’t remember that woman’s name who was the head of NASA at the time, but she’s an effing psychopath! Well, now I’ve got my fur up lol. Sorry. Hope you have a lovely weekend 🙏💚
They found a skull with its front teeth and a charred male torso when the search for debris got underway. They also found a thigh bone and a charred boot with half a foot in it a few days later. When that crew compartment came apart they all got ripped to pieces. RIP
@@always420smoking8 It's all now very well documented, with links to archived pages of eye witnesses. 👇 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaster
Maybe because our government has lied tonus numerous times tried to cover it up them release the findings of their u truthfulness decades later.. open your eyes
@Jesus Mea Lux Evidence my arsehole. I've seen this so-called "evidence" and only a complete tool would believe it's the same people. the faces different, the eye colours are different it's not even close. really pathetic and an insult on their families by some tinfoil hatted millennials.
Had a weird dream last night that I was in a spacecraft that failed upon reentry. It was damn scary, so I felt I had to come pay my respects to the men and women who put their lives on the line in the name of research and exploration!
Felt the dread of imminent death, with nothing I could do about it, a vivid dream that the moon was going to crash into the earth, getting closer and bigger in the sky. Very realistic, with nothing to do but wait for it to happen. I don't want to think about the fact that people like the Columbia crew felt such a soul crushing dread in real life. I literally couldn't imagine anythinf worse than the kind of tragedy they went through, their feet werent even on the ground
apparently not concerned enough that she was okay with leaving her children and risking her life in space. guess she was more concerned with what was best for her needs.
Sad for all involved..a man or woman could be out running errands for the family and get into car accident..or some other bad circumstances befall them..or can be home and fall victims to a robbery
User Name and she could sit at home and wipe their butts and they could have had a brain dead unhappy Mother who could have turned them into serial killers because she would have lived her life thru them because she was miserable and unhappy and unfulfilled. She would have tied them to her apron strings and never allowed them to grow up and constantly reminded them of how she sacrificed her entire life for them and how they owed her everything because she gave up her dreams, and wishes and blah blah blah just to be a good mother! What decade are you living in sucker? The 1950s?
Bob Barker The tape begins dropping out towards the end, my guess is everything after the end of the video was damaged to the point that it could no longer be played, at least based off my understanding of how videotape works.
As a former USAF mechanic, I like to comment on what caused the disaster. In previous Shuttle mission, it was not unheard of for a piece of Orange foam to break off from the Main rocket Booster. The foam is to prevent ice build up on the outside so the ice would not break off and hit the shuttle. The MASS of the foam was 26 ounces broke off and hit the leading edge of the shuttle. The leading edge made of carbon carbon fiber, its a different type of carbon fiber hence, the odd name. The location of the puncture was right above the landing gear tire. As the shuttle entered orbit, Plasma started to form over the wing. Plasma is super hot and the plasma also entered the hole in the leading edge where it was damaged by the foam. The plasma was heating the tire, which witch was staring to swell and expand with the heat. Ground Control got a high temperature warning on that tire. As the tire expanded, it could no longer contain the pressure and exploded. I did not read or hear reports of what damage the tire did to the wing box, but my theory is the explosion was enough FORCE in newtons, to cause the Shuttle to roll on its back, exposing the top side to extremity hot plasma, which started to cut into the shuttle body. My guess is the heat then severed all flight control action between the cabin and flight controls. Its very possible if the Engineers had designed the Shuttle, they could have reinforced the Leading edge that extended over the tires and had this been done, the shuttle would have returned safely to Earth.
There is no main rocket booster. The orange foam covers the fuel tank. Plasma doesn't form entering orbit. The shuttle is not traveling fast enough. Plasma formed on the orbiter during re-entry back into the atmosphere . There is no hot tire sensor. There is a warning on the tires for low pressure which is what they got. Prior to that they got a loss of hydraulics pressure in that wing box. Hydraulic pressure doesn't lower the gear but just releases it to drop. Heat didn't sever the flight controls as this is a fly by wire space craft and the bundles are located on the bottom of the orbiter below the wing. The left wing structurally detached from the orbiter from the heat degradation which led to loss of control and breakup.
@@jrockett73 right they received a wacked tire reading LOW, not high. The tire must have exploded. But like you stated prior to that they lost hydraulics. that in itself doomed the orbiter even if it didn't actually "flip over" (which it may have). but I believe like you mentioned they lost the wing due to thermal overload within same. I wonder if the crew was even aware of the possible damage that the foam may have caused. Were they ever informed? Probably not.
The crew was sent the same video that we all saw down here. Of course they were told it wasn't an issue for flight based on past history of foam shedding.
@@leecowell8165 i dont think they were aware..I dont even think NASA was aware...it wasnt discovered until after the fact (investigation rewatch of the launch)
seconds or minutes before the actual malfunction the noise alone would have been terrifying, and most of them probably knew what was likely to have been happening
Why once they knew they were losing pressures and sensors, didn't they fire the main engines and go back up? Doesn't seem too late to try? Maybe they did.
9 : 15 " No rush . Plenty of time " How tragically ironic 😟 I can't help but believe the flashes of light they were seeing was coming from the shuttle. "Its noisy in there , isn't it " Watching this is unsettlingly creepy . A death ride
Plasma around the vehicle is what SHOULD happen, and indeed it always happens. If it doesn't, Earth is in some serious problem. As well as every living thing on it. But, hey, thankfully the laws of physics are...laws, so you get no exceptions. What actually killed the astronauts is well-known
This breaks my heart. I can’t imagine how their family and friends must be feeling. Everything they felt 17 years back must be surfacing again watching this. I hope they can find courage and may these heroes RIP.
Mobius -1 why would they even share this video ya know. They will say it's for training but training for what? It's not like an astronot could hit the breaks or abort anything.. No disrespect to freemason stories but Challenger crew -1 are still alive.. I know I know it's their✌ twins✌ that magically appeared after the show. I thought it was amazing how hard they pushed ALL schools to broadcast the event and how odd we didn't focus so hard on any launches before or after that special launch with a teacher aboard.. I was duped too..
We were pulled over in a Dairy Queen parking lot in Lufkin, Texas when it came apart. There was a huge sound, and the DQ windows shook violently for several seconds. We didn’t realize what it was for a few minutes. When we got to Nacogdoches, we saw quite a few pieces of the shuttle being guarded by the National Guardsmen. At Al Mangum Regional Airport, there was a huge metal ball from the shuttle laying unguarded on the airstrip. We went right up to it. So sad.
*I remember this disaster vividly. I was driving on interstate 20 just west of Dallas. I literally pulled over and watched the smoke trail in different sections rain down on East Texas & Western Louisiana. You could see it that far away. As I traveled & continued East to Louisiana. I pulled over just before the State Line because I found a piece of cloth on the shoulder. It turned out to be an arm patch. I turned it in because it was the law. Poor souls.*
@tgmforum Since it looks like his comments were deleted, I don't know what he said, but how would he know not to touch any items on the ground??? In 2003, a lot of people didn't even use cell phones, so if they were on the road driving, they may not have heard the instructions that was given, unless they had the car radio on and just happened to be on a news station lol. Today in 2020, it's way different, because all of us have our face glued to our smart phones, so we don't miss any news lol, but in 2003 most people didn't stare at their electronic devices, if they even had an electronic device to begin with lol, some people back then only had a home computer, and that's it. In 2003 I was 17 years old, and I didn't even have my first cell phone yet lol, I got my first cell phone when I was close to 18, so probably later on in late 2003, and back then I was never up to date on breaking news, because if I wasn't on my computer at home, or sitting in front of the TV, I had no idea what was going on lol. Me personally, if I found that arm patch, this sounds wrong, but I probably would've kept it, at least he turned it in.
@@justinexplainseverything1554 I do NOT use my cell when driving so I would not have heard anything unless it was posted by the government. I would probably have pulled over though and confirmed what I heard. I'm surprised that patch wasn't incinerated.
Mission control knew there would be a chance of them not making it with the damaged tiles. No choice, no rescue vehicle available to fetch them, no way of repairing the damage.
Incorrect- a Soyuz mission could have helped if they just stayed in orbit and it would have taken couple of a Soyuz missions or they could have been ‘shuttled ‘ to the ISS until next mission to get them back.
@@dealzguyYT And exactly how was Soyuz supposed to dock to a shuttle with no docking ring? Also, a Soyuz wouldn't have had enough fuel to make one trip back and forth, due to the lower orbit of Columbia. So no.
@@dealzguyYT There was absolutely no way a Soyuz could dock with the Columbia. They were planning to send another Shuttle (probably Atlantis) to try and rescue the crew but they canceled it.
@@justinebautista1383 No, there was no plan to send Atlantis on a rescue mission as no one knew the extent of the damage. In the post-accident investigation, they looked at what would have had to have been done to prep Atlantis, and while probable, it was not found to be feasible due to time constraints and safety issues.
This happened on a Saturday morning. I was working a stop gap hourly job to make ends meet and it was an inventory mandatory day. None of us wanted to be there. But as we watched the craft streak across the sky and burning, I said, 'well, I guess it's not so bad to be here doing inventory on a Saturday.'
I have never taken a look at the space program with a keen eye, but after seeing this I have so much respect for anyone who has done anything like go to space. RIP.
They passed doin what they loved and even had a little bit of a chuckle at the end, if i was on that shuttle i wouldnt have regreted a thing, you still keep living on as Hero´s guys. Lots of love from germany
They dont even know what happened..it was all too quick. The Challenger crew in 1986 at least were aware there was an explosion and were conscious as cockpit fell to the ocean....but this crew had no awareness what happened..
If you are going to spend billions of dollars to send people up there - I personally would think its a great idea to spend anoter few million to have a backup plan to have a rescue shuttle. This is 2018 - does NASA have that plan yet?
They wouldn't need one because the us government doesn't see the need in space exploration. Yet they will pay someone like Elon Musk to go to space for them because not surprisingly, the government still wants to put satellites and stuff into orbit.
They were aware of the foam hitting the wing and didn’t feel it was necessary to repair the damaged tiles or they would have performed these at the ISS.. or they could’ve launched another shuttle to begin repairs. This was the whole problem. After this disaster they made it a point to use cameras and do an end over end maneuver once reaching orbit to check for tile damage in subsequent missions until the program was ended in 2010
This is absolutely gut wrenching yet incredibly illustrative on the risks of spaceflight. People involved in spaceflight, both up there and on the ground, are some of the finest, most incredible people our species has produced. In memory of all those who lost their lives so we could benefit from the scientific discoveries of space.
@adolfo pirelli actually the same happened with challenger. It was mostly gas and fire no explosion. It was a failure of an o ring which made a joint fail which then made one of the boosters roll and then it ripped itself to shreds. The crew was alive until they hit the water.
I noticed at some point Kalpana said "I think we've got jets firing in the back" (when landing the shuttle jets usually onlly fire during deorbit burn. They will start firing to help level it off if it's not perfectly aligned like its supposed to be) and then the guy saying "It's noisy in here." At one point all jets were firing because the ship was trying to stay steady, but the hole in the wing was knocking it off the axis.
As they were concerned about the pilots water pack being a danger to the control panels, they decide to take care of it, not knowing that would be the absolute least of their concerns as their lives would soon perish. I hate this and the Challenger Disaster, as they really show how small and fragile we are versus space.
they lived longer in the challenger disaster.. took them 15 min to hit the water.. thats when they died.. when they hit the water.. unlke tehse people who burned alive. the challenger was not a shattering explosion.. it was not contained.. it was a whoosh explosion.. pushed not shattered.. they were all consious and awake all the way down to splash.. bet they would have given their right leg for a parachute.
My heart breaks so much for them after watching this. They were so excited, happy, and proud for what they did out there and what they should have been celebrating on Earth's soil, rather than the shitty reality of unprepared disaster dooming them in the end.
yeah they ditched the shuttle. however they're still pursuing the usage of chemical rockets to explore space an absolutely STUPID idea to send organics out there with those things. You wanna send inanimate out there using that crude method? Fine. But stop sending PEOPLE out there because we need a much more controllable (survivable) method.
How very tragic to spend so very many years of training and likely thousands of hours in simulations to finally get the green light to be on the Columbia mission, only to have all of your lifelong efforts and dreams shattered in what was probably mere fractions of a second. I suppose it remains a small comfort knowing depressurization and unconsciousness would’ve occurred so quickly as to be painless and instantaneous. It feels pretty futile trying to fathom the magnitude of this loss though; I hope the surviving family and friends of the crew have found some peace over the years.
James Robinson makes you wonder how many crazy evolved civilizations that took millions of years to develop that might’ve been vaporized in any number of super novas in less than an instant. So is life.
In a spacecraft, there is so much that the astronauts have absolutely no control over. If the transmission in my car goes out, or if the brakes fail, I can take steps to ensure my safety and the safety of other drivers. There's no fixing a broken heat shield when you're minutes away from reentry.
This is striking to me. Even though its obvious, it bears repeating. Every single last thing has to work properly, the first time. Zero margin of error. This is why manufacturing tolerances go down with each layer of risk. A electric motor for a car might cost $50.00. The same power motor in a marine application will cost 150. In a fighter jet will cost 500, and in a shuttle will cost $5000. Like always, you get what you payed for. The aero grade motor cost 100x the automotive grade one does, but will offer 100x the reliability. Also taking 100x the expense to manufacture. Much better materials, design, testing, and quality controls. This is why rocket science is an interchangeable phrase to describe something impossibly hard to do lol.
@@ctdieselnut We have shuttled exploding because an o-ring was too cold. Space the Universe is beyond extremities and unforgiving. Random space objects, gamma ray bursts, planet with storms that make the fiercest Earth storm feel like a gentle spring breeze. Maybe the cruelest reality is that no lifeform regardless of it's intelligence without the laws of this Universe is meant to travel to other stars.
I was shocked when they realized from the start that the shuttle was doomed ... they had so much time to decide and come up with a plan but instead they gave up on them ... you're telling me they couldn't get Soyuz rocket to launch a rescue mission in time, they had so many options but instead, they let them die ... they never told them ... how do you make a decision to let them die and not tell them ....... man ... that's something somebody lives with for the rest of their lives.
Launching a shuttle takes weeks of planning, and with how fast the shuttles go, and the rotation of the Earth, even if a shuttle was somehow always on stand-by, they would never reach the shuttle. There is a reason way it can be days, or even weeks before a shuttle or rocket can launch if there is an issue with launch, flight windows are extremely short.
Soyuz hold three astronauts at most. There are 7 here and Soyuz would need a pilot on the way up. This is impossible for that many people, regardless of the absolutely innumerable logistical problems.
They didn't know that it was doomed. There had been previous times that pieces of foam hit a shuttle on takeoff with no problems afterwards. This time was just bad luck.
if you have seen other re-entry videos from inside there are flashes like that. so it could be normal plasma from the 3,000 degree superheating that occurs on every flight. the problem with Columbia was not the plasma outside. but its entry into the damaged wing
They discuss it in the video. The early quick white flashes are Reaction Control Thrusters that orient the vehicle and the later orange glows are the atmosphere heating up around the surfaces of the craft creating a hot plasma. This is an expected sight during reentry and one of them even says "Wait till you start seeing the swirl patterns out your left and right windows"
The white flashing is from the thrusters keeping the vehicle orentiented. If you use Kerbal Space Program you can get a pretty good understanding of that.
Very Haunting. The only thing I could compare it to would be like being on a Submarine. The Thresher was believed to implode before the crew could even realize it. 😔
Jeff, if you mean closed caption it has it. If you mean subtitles in another language, that is another story. But the next of kin need to SUE the shit out of nasa. I am sure there is a way to do this if it has not been done yet.
@@stefandwoodham The shuttle blew up. How can they live through that. And in 2003 the other shuttle broke up during reentry. How does anyone survive that one? They must have some secret technology or something.
So many idiots here. Columbia suffered tile damage during liftoff resulting in a loss of control and breakup upon re entry. Challenger was blown apart during accent by a leaking o ring in the srb melting through the main tank. It is likely the Challenger crew were alive until impact with the sea. It is impossible that anyone was alive on Columbia entering the atmosphere at 17,000 mph without a space craft. Before you comment, look it up.
Amen my brother....Scary how people ( sheeple?) just don't even bother to think for themselves these days....Only regurgitate some crap they've read , on social media somewhere no doubt . Laughably pathethic....
Idk I dont think challenger pilots were alive when the shuttle hit the ocean huge explosion when your strapped to fuel that's designed to burn in an oxygen free and oxygen rich environment I believe they were dead quickly too
I remember NASA announcing that they DID in fact have the tape of their final seconds and the cockpit bursting in flames. NASA said that they would not show it to the public but the families could come to watch these final moments as long as they knew how horrible the outcome would be.
Ridiculous ! The camera lost power right at the moment of breakup because its power source is the orbiter. And likely what happened is that Laurel turned off the camera at the first sign of trouble per protocol.
The Sony XC-555 camera has no batteries and only records video and not audio. It uses a cable like I said before that connects directly to the orbiters 28V system. I installed it.
I’ve always wanted to go to the moon- and this did make me second guess when I learned about it, but ultimately, it’s a risk I’d be ready to make to advance humanity.
Same it just makes me scared what NASA has done nothing hasn’t helped… I gave up after I watched “Challenger The Final Flight” on Netflix. RIP for all people how lived up to there dream and died in the space program..
RIP Rick Husband (1957-2003) William C. McCool (1961-2003) Michael P. Anderson (1959-2003) Kalpana Chawla (1962-2003) David M. Brown (1956-2003) Laurel Clark (1961-2003) and Ilan Ramon (1954-2003)
With all due respect to astronaut Altman's statement RE: the viewable tape having "spooled" & therefore was not destroyed (it was clearly a compact/small camera they were handing back & forth. As soon as the video of the Shuttle Break-up was shot the tape would have almost immediately "spooled" & should have also been saved) seems a convenient excuse......The "official line" that the 10 minutes or so of video, that would have shown the beginnings of The Break-Up of the shuttle & the ensuing panic on board, were destroyed..... But that these 13 minutes immediately before that were recovered virtually pristine, fails The credibility smell test. You can't blame the federal government and NASA though, you just can't put that raw footage out there; it would have only served a sadistic voyeuristic urge.
Yes. Extremely suspicious that this camera only spooled up and saved this amount of video and cut off the destruction.!! They would have set it up and recorded the entire return.!!
I am still surprised at how over modulated and distorted the audio on the microphones in the space suits are. What are the microphones are too close to the peoples mouths or the gain sensitivity is set too high. I would’ve thought that after many shuttle missions. The engineers working on the communications systems. Would have been able to dial-in proper gain staging for these microphones so they would not be distorted, but instead clearly audible.
bless them all-------brilliant , brave and whats eerie is they are so normal doing their final checks and have no idea they are on their way to "the other side'
Imagine how horrible it would be to believe that your control room/crew capsule was safer than the safest plane, but while finally getting home, you feel the heat and then your capsule catches on fire, with everyone burning in just mere seconds, then the capsule explodes from the heat and everything gets torn into pieces..
The full video used to be on here but i think it was taken down out of respect. All it showed was the camera glitching and going dark as the shuttle broke apart.
Remember this, live in East Texas. It woke me up and the windows shook!! And, was curious, at about 11:50 the pilot or other man in the front said "That's all I can do. 3 and a half bags out of 4". What is he talking about!? Does it have to do with hydrating themselves? Thanks
It takes a certain kind of fortitude and strength to be crammed in a tin can in outer space. I am having a panic attack just watching and a strong feeling of claustrophobia. No way I could do that. I would quickly go insane. Salute to all the brave men and women who do this thing and r.i.p. to those who died trying. 🙏
its outright haunting trying to watch this. I couldn't get through it. it ended at what 07:46 CST? they had about 15 minutes to live after this ended. They had no clue because they were informed about the tire failure only minutes before they met their demise. That musta been VERY unsettling knowing that at best they were gonna hafta make an emergency landing at the cape. however once they lost hydraulics (which I believe occurred first) the orbiter was essentially doomed right there. They may have actually lost control before it disintegrated but by then it didn't matter. now they were executing maneuvers before this but how is that accomplished IF they don't have enough atmosphere to operate within? There must be rocket powered thrusters on board? Must be.
What’s terrible about this is they had already performed the de-orbit burn. There was no way of saving the crew at this point. They did not have enough fuel to accelerate back to a stable orbit. They were as good as dead at this point they just didn’t know it yet.
What I find chilling about these types of videos of "mishaps" or accidents, the passengers have no idea there life is about to end in seconds or minutes. Sound like in this case, they suspected something was wrong and still concentrated on trying to "right the ship". God Bless them. True american heroes.
One little piece of foam insulation coming loose sadly killed all 7 on board.The' Challenger' however was an o-ring gasket that became too cold.Sometimes the fine, minute details turn into monsters and probability is thrown out of the window . Fate and death then collude and the horror is born.
The fact that people on the ground kinda knew what was about to happen, but they kept it hidden from the crew because nothing could’ve been done is crazy. Crew were doomed their entire flight in space
I remember when this happened. Pieces started falling onto the ground in Azle Texas. I live in Fort Worth and heard something hit my roof. Years later at a neighborhood watch gathering, a neighbor down the street his house got hit as well. The piece I have matched his piece of plastic in size and color. They were not burned or melted. On the news Joe Public found larger pieces in East Texas. I remember seeing a helmet in pristine shape. It was found in the woods. I thought after seeing the helmet that they lived longer than we surmised. I remember when they found the movie film in Palestine,Texas as it was a week or two later. I believe both crews lived consciously longer than we were told. I am an ICU nurse of more than 35 years and have been with many dying patients. Even those afraid of going to Hell seemed to die peacefully. The tension left their bodies and their faces relaxed. Those that died and returned thirty minutes later described a wonderful experience. They knew it wasn't their time and were satisfied. They were not alone in Spirit when they crossed over. Some people met relatives,St.Peter at the Gate and Jesus. Some patients told me of "limbo land".
I read a story about Kalpana's life growing up. Her mother said that all her essays in school were about the stars and planets and outer space. She planned for this career all of her life. It was her dream.
She came from a place where women education was not considered important especially in that era(70s) , yet she did allll that. I have a huge respect for her and her parents
@@Supermax2206 lmao dumbass. They were re-entering earth. Why would you think their dream would be to re-enter earth? This really shows your lack of knowledge surrounding this disaster. dumbass
@@SurvivingAnotherDay lmao
Her destiny was fulfilled
@@SantinoCorleon1 ehhh, kinda, but she did oof but big rip
Watching people's final moments is really weird. Regardless of weather they felt any pain or not, what happened to these people minutes after this tape ends is unimaginable.
I can imagine.
They wouldn’t have felt a thing. They just ‘checked out’. RIP.
It happened so fast they probably didn't know what hit them
Knarf Trakiul read the report. They knew something was wrong.
Bare in mind their traveling over 17 thousand miles an hour , faster than a bullet. I don't think they felt a thing .
That's haunting watching these poor people going through the check list, joking around, loving life, having no idea they only have minutes to live. Haunting!
what exactly happend
@David Osborne yeah, I sure hope in this case, they were killed quickly in an explosion. What a shame though.
@@bigjockknewheknew3882 the tiles that protect the shuttle during re-entry were damaged during lift off. Fire entered the port side wing I believe. It was all over for the crew at that point.
@@dwaynefrye2984 was there no way they could have had emergancy exit
David Osborne a very good explanation and appreciative of the details.
Nearly 20 years ago, feels like yesterday
Right...Hell, the Challenger explosion was like thirty five years ago, and I remember watching it live, on TV at my junior high school. That seems like it happened yesterday, as well...
@@davidgordon702 These memories have a habit of lingering.
@@davidgordon702 i watched challenger explode everyone was excited seeing the boosters blow off till I told them no it blew up the rockets don't separate that early and back then they didn't show the srb sep
maths is hard
This man really is everywhere
"definitely wouldn't wanna be outside right now"
definitely wouldn't wanna be inside either
State your business witch
@@Aloidark shut the fuck up.
@@anastasiasgaming1380 k
jesus christ, man
The places I find you man 😂
It's hard to believe that this happened 17 years ago. Rest in peace Columbia crew.
😔😔😔😔😔
17 years ago? That was like, 2004.
This was 30 something or 40.
@@mingchenwei1978 30 or 40 years? this happened in 2003
@Axxoniz_ thats the challenger. This video talks about the Columbia disaster
The communication between the crew showed how professional but relatable they were. It's kind of eerie how Chawla kept recording the view from the window and how the pilot kept mentioning how bright it became.
I hear that the windows don't even feel warm during entry. Kinda interesting
@@imEden0 only if the angle is correct, the heat shields on the underside of the hull can take it, the windows can't therefore need to be in the lee of the plasma.
Anyone else think that there was more on this tape but it isn't being released out of respect for the crew and their loved ones.
There has to be more to it, but its hidden from us untill years later, either something classified or just respects to their familys.
Your suspicion is likely correct, and I don't know that we should ever expect to see it. If NASA has reviewed it then all the scientific use for it has been gained. There's no reason to release it for public consumption to satisfy our curiosity.
@@davidjack7418 Not that I would ever consider doing this, but NASA being a government agency, if you would request any additional information under the (freedom of information act of 1974) they should be required to provide it.
Its either that or the camera was ripped to shreds right after the video malfunction
@@johnshirley8099 Key word "should", but govt agencies are still selective since they continue to think even they are above any type of law. It's gross.
Rest in peace, Columbia crew:
Rick Husband
William McCool
Ilan Ramon
David Brown
Michael Anderson
Laurel Clark
Kalpana Chawla
Your lives will never be forgotten.
9:14 “no rush we have plenty of time”😢
That hurts
That sent a chill thru me
But really they did not
@@mydknyghthunter925 It was put in their mind to say that by the higher power because of what was going to happen. Also made Miles O'Brian say ,"hit Louisiana" instead of ,"go over". Everything is divine intervention, orchestrated by a higher power and we are nothing but puppets. Now you know the truth but you probably aren't supposed to believe it as such.
I've always wondered if they really did recover tape from the rest of the flight but kept it quiet because the contents were so harrowing.
Trig Point , if this was recovered then they probably did but they'd never show it to the public out of respect for the families
The tape stopped recording (or was rendered unviewable) about 10 mins before breakup. They probably didn't have any sign during this tapes duration. Some point after crossing the coast a large piece broke off that slowly backed away from the vehicle (per ground observers video) that would have bathed the entire upper crew cabin in bright light. They would then know something was seriously wrong.
It looked to me like the tape was reaching the end of viewable footage. I see some digital drop out right at the end there. Who knows.. you may be right though.
Of course they have the rest of the tape but like said above, out of respect they won't show it to the public and that's how it should be although we're all curious
One of the astronauts was recording the entire reentry and landing. I also believe NASA has the complete video of the breakup, but no one wants to see the astronauts screaming as they are dying.
I served in the US Navy with Willie McCool on board the USS Coral sea 1987/1988 we were in the same carrier group squadrons , Great guy and naval aviator as well . RIP Columbia crew !
A pilot to the end, given the attempted restart of APU #2 to get the hydraulics back online (switch throws had to have been done by him) during the orbiter's final moments. I have a lot of admiration for the professionalism of the crew. It's inspiring.
The amount of training and dedication that these and all astronauts go through and have is simply stunning. It's such a shame to lose such heroes.
I don't mean to sound insensitive at all but how are they Heroes? A hero to me is someone that saves lives or protects somebody.
they are heroes since if the space shuttle challenge was successful they could have studied a lot more in space in advanced and technically speaking studying space means there is something you can prevent from happening in the future saving other people's lives such as NASA's spacecrew studying about asteroids in an successful take off and solar activity and it's dangers. They do this to come up for solutions to minimize the effects of radiation from high solar flares and incoming asteroids like we have today now (ozone layer protection, future asteroid catchers) because of them volunteering to this challenge just to study about space, and their sudden sacrifice from NASA's Ignorance. not only that NASA learned their lessons. they are now more strict about spaceship shuttle safety and mechanics and on how to prevent this from happening ever again
@@BosoxPatsfan603 that's because you're *extremely* shallow minded
@@forkkett100yago7 loooool
@@BosoxPatsfan603 You wouldn't know a hero if it was glued to your eyes.
Heart-wrenching all these years later. RIP Columbia Crew. We will never forget you.
Chilling when one of them said, "you wouldn't want to be outside now"
Not really because what he was referencing was standard at that point.
@@AE-bm4no why would that be a standard comment, even if it was it's still a chilling thing to say when that's where they ended up
@@AE-bm4no Even if it was, that comment did aged very badly
Who was it that said that?
@@kdjoshi726 It was in another video, not sure which one said it.
The serendipity of this tape somehow surviving the fall AND falling someplace where it could be found is just astounding.
God rest their souls. True hero’s.
They arent heroes. They do a job for a lot of money, a job that wastes tax payer money.
Brenton Draper What the fuck you talking about? They get paid good salaries but not millions, and they put their life more at risk than almost everyone else in the working world.
Yes does waste a lot of money.
Except what happens when you go around the moon? Cant use autonomous for that
@@brentdraper4382 your response is rude and insensitive sure you wouldn't make that same comment if one of those people where a family member
It's amazing the violence happening outside of the shuttle while they are cocooned in safety inside having no clue as to the horror about to unfold
anti-left crusader Sometimes, ignorance is bliss.
the horror was pretty quick. that amount of decompression is not just immediate deep unconsciousness but unrecoverable unconsciousness. Followed by broken necks and massive had trauma (the type of helmets and restrain used actually made profound head and neck trauma more likely than no helmet at all). They probably were deeply unconscious with the first spin (g-force of about 30 gs). The investigative report lists about five things that were each roundly lethal each, all occurring pretty quickly.
Most of us will die in some hospital or hospice bed, gone on morphine after having accomplished very little in life whereas these people worked to be at, and enjoyed being at the pinnacle of human technical achievement.
if you count all accidents of people who have been in orbit, that is about 562 people and about 3% have died as a result. if you count all people died in training and non orbital flight, then you count all people in training programs (about 1,800) and then that is also about 3% death rate. Really it is dangerous but the risk has been fairly low say compared to being in a ship during the age of exploration of the seas
@@samd.8911 Not the same with Challenger though !
@@samd.8911 30 seconds between loss of control and total decompression.
15:23 Aw man, when he said you definitely don’t wanna be outside then... that hurt...
FunnyMonkay they would sadly be outside just a few minutes after this...
Its corona time
@@thetoad8253 that didn't age well
It really does
:(
I can't help thinking of their family and friends watching this, clinging for meaning and trying to be close to them through this video... I pray for their family and friends to find peace...
And theres a very very likely possibility that there is more gruesome or disturbing but will never be realised do to there family/government classifying it.
God help them.
Ikr
Boy do you have some news 😂
Actually, there is every likelihood that some of the family members were at Command watching it live stream.
In another timeline, they landed.
That was beautiful man I really believe the moment they lost there lives up there they went somewhere else instantly
well not in our universe unfortunately
Ahahhahahahahababaahahaha
In another timeline the people on the ground would have taken the risk seriously for a change and not stepped a second time into the Challenger trap of thinking everything turns out to be okay just because it has in the past. Instead we would have seen either an Apollo 13 style improvisation on fixing the heat shield or even more spectacular an automated shuttle launch of the Endevour a few days later, returning with Columbia's crew, which the abandonned shuttle would disintegrate above the ocean.
@tgmforum As far as I know the US shuttle could launch remote controlled (like every other rocket, so I am not sure what should be any more "daunting" about that than what has already been done) but was incapable to land (unlike the russian Buran, which had the ability to do both, more than a decade earlier). No unmanned landing was needed.
And you are wrong when you think one could not have learned from Challenger, as in both cases Nasa relied on getting away with a margin of error which turned out to be fatal and in both cases the worries were handwaved away in a similar way, to let the worries not get into the way of the turnaround, even though they were aware of the problem in both cases. Knowing about things *before* they happen is not hindsight.
Two of the most chilling moments of this video for me... @ 14:14 where the pilot mentions how noisey and bright it is @ the front of the ship, and the lady says.. "not nearly as much as the back"...which we now know was the hole on the bottom by the wing reacting to the heat exposure... And the second was @ 15:15 where the guy jokes about "you definitely don't want to be outside right now" and they all laugh... Not knowing that's exactly what would happen as the ship would break apart shortly after... That is absolutely horrifying!!! 😖
I definitely agree with what you said. I found one part around midway in the video to be not haunting or disturbing or anything but to just make me think about how quick things can change. It was a Male voice said something I couldn't make out then he said "dont worry about it we have plenty of time" and then no less then 5 minutes later they all were gone. What they were doing was dangerous so that thought was probably in the back of their minds knowing something could happen at any moment but I guess it was the choice of words used that made me think about it like that. If that makes any sense at all
At 15:51 you can see the shuttle glowing out the window. At that angle, it is likely the wing.......starting to disintegrate. Awful.
Firstname Lastname is allowed Yeah dude I noticed that too... he was talking about the members not getting their gloves on yet (which would’ve made their suits pressurized), but that “they had plenty of time”. Had their suits been on properly, they may have had to endure more of the terror while conscious
within millaseconds of the first hole larger than hacokypuck and everyone in that shuttle would have deep unconsciousness even if they had their flight helmets and gloves on. Those suits were not made for 200,000 feet
@@TakesbyJake Everything they were seeing out the windows in this video was expected and happens on every re-entry. One of them even says "wait till you start seeing the swirl patterns". The orientation of those cockpit windows would not allow them to see either of the wings. The wings are very far back on the structure and do not extend out very far. This video appears to cut off before any recognition of any problem came up. There was not even any acknowledgement of the temp sensor drop outs yet which can be heard on the ground control recordings. Right up until the end of the video there isn't even any notable turbulence.
They didnt see it coming. Poor crew. I hope they passed quickly and painlessly. Rest in peace, brave souls.
They go up knowing they might explode.. risky Business
Me trying to have a good day. RUclips “Hey look at this disaster”
Sometimes it feels like RUclips is purposely trying to make me feel down
@TredatGuy_#pg13 that’s not the point
I’ve always been obsessed with nasa, and I followed this crew along their journey. They were so sweet and joyful. That day was singed into my memory, so seeing this the first time made me sick to my stomach. I missed most of what was said because of that, so I rewatched. The second time I found myself smiling when they said “I see you in the mirror” “I see you, too!”, and then a gruff “okay” from Commander Husband and they all snapped back into focusing.They were so happy. That’s the way I want to go out, having the time of my life doing my life’s dream. God bless their loved ones.
NASA is corrupt. Murdered the Challenger crew. A good doc is on Netflix.
@@ladesigner8764 Thanks for letting me know about the doc! I’m kind of scared to watch it tbh. NASA absolutely murdered them. I watched the hearings as they happened and it was just unbelievable that they could let them die like that. I don’t remember that woman’s name who was the head of NASA at the time, but she’s an effing psychopath! Well, now I’ve got my fur up lol. Sorry. Hope you have a lovely weekend 🙏💚
They found a skull with its front teeth and a charred male torso when the search for debris got underway. They also found a thigh bone and a charred boot with half a foot in it a few days later. When that crew compartment came apart they all got ripped to pieces. RIP
holy shit, that’s gruesome.
Where did you get this information from
@@always420smoking8 It's all now very well documented, with links to archived pages of eye witnesses. 👇
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Columbia_disaster
Such a brutal way to die... yet, they were fearsome.
I love how folks who barely made it out of highschool (if that) always want to say something is fake. 😂
High school is not a great measure of intelligence, btw.
Maybe because our government has lied tonus numerous times tried to cover it up them release the findings of their u truthfulness decades later.. open your eyes
it's fake! admit you are a dumb sheep and move on, stop being fooled by NASA trickery that they have been feeding to the masses for decades now.
@@poppadee6950 Really? Would you care to explain what would be the purpose of faking it? what would they achieve by that..?
@Jesus Mea Lux Evidence my arsehole. I've seen this so-called "evidence" and only a complete tool would believe it's the same people. the faces different, the eye colours are different it's not even close. really pathetic and an insult on their families by some tinfoil hatted millennials.
Nothing will convince me the rest of this tape didn’t survive.
It did....Months ago I saw what looked like an inner implosion of the front side area....I remember this well...
Had a weird dream last night that I was in a spacecraft that failed upon reentry. It was damn scary, so I felt I had to come pay my respects to the men and women who put their lives on the line in the name of research and exploration!
Felt the dread of imminent death, with nothing I could do about it, a vivid dream that the moon was going to crash into the earth, getting closer and bigger in the sky. Very realistic, with nothing to do but wait for it to happen. I don't want to think about the fact that people like the Columbia crew felt such a soul crushing dread in real life. I literally couldn't imagine anythinf worse than the kind of tragedy they went through, their feet werent even on the ground
The lady was so cute and sounded like a happy concerned mother. Ughhhh hate this. RIP to all of crew members who perished in the Columbia Shuttle.
apparently not concerned enough that she was okay with leaving her children and risking her life in space. guess she was more concerned with what was best for her needs.
@@username4441 theres always one of these liberal dirtbags
Sad for all involved..a man or woman could be out running errands for the family and get into car accident..or some other bad circumstances befall them..or can be home and fall victims to a robbery
User Name and she could sit at home and wipe their butts and they could have had a brain dead unhappy Mother who could have turned them into serial killers because she would have lived her life thru them because she was miserable and unhappy and unfulfilled. She would have tied them to her apron strings and never allowed them to grow up and constantly reminded them of how she sacrificed her entire life for them and how they owed her everything because she gave up her dreams, and wishes and blah blah blah just to be a good mother! What decade are you living in sucker? The 1950s?
No Meat?
May they rest in peace, along with their comrads from Challenger.
Amen
I wonder if they met in heaven
He said "I wouldn't want to be out there right now" like 30 seconds before the crash..
It was about 4 minutes before the accident. I have a feeling NASA cut that part out, but maybe the video did end there.
Bob Barker The tape begins dropping out towards the end, my guess is everything after the end of the video was damaged to the point that it could no longer be played, at least based off my understanding of how videotape works.
@@SebisRandomTech neh. My guess is that they have everything but just as always only allow us to see what they determine we're allowed to.
@@bobbarker3248 NASA didn't cut anything out. The video ends there. Conspiracy theories are bunk.
These amazing people that were enjoying each other and having such a wonderful time. So sad.
As a former USAF mechanic, I like to comment on what caused the disaster. In previous Shuttle mission, it was not unheard of for a piece of Orange foam to break off from the Main rocket Booster. The foam is to prevent ice build up on the outside so the ice would not break off and hit the shuttle. The MASS of the foam was 26 ounces broke off and hit the leading edge of the shuttle. The leading edge made of carbon carbon fiber, its a different type of carbon fiber hence, the odd name. The location of the puncture was right above the landing gear tire. As the shuttle entered orbit, Plasma started to form over the wing. Plasma is super hot and the plasma also entered the hole in the leading edge where it was damaged by the foam. The plasma was heating the tire, which witch was staring to swell and expand with the heat. Ground Control got a high temperature warning on that tire. As the tire expanded, it could no longer contain the pressure and exploded. I did not read or hear reports of what damage the tire did to the wing box, but my theory is the explosion was enough FORCE in newtons, to cause the Shuttle to roll on its back, exposing the top side to extremity hot plasma, which started to cut into the shuttle body. My guess is the heat then severed all flight control action between the cabin and flight controls. Its very possible if the Engineers had designed the Shuttle, they could have reinforced the Leading edge that extended over the tires and had this been done, the shuttle would have returned safely to Earth.
There is no main rocket booster. The orange foam covers the fuel tank. Plasma doesn't form entering orbit. The shuttle is not traveling fast enough. Plasma formed on the orbiter during re-entry back into the atmosphere . There is no hot tire sensor. There is a warning on the tires for low pressure which is what they got. Prior to that they got a loss of hydraulics pressure in that wing box. Hydraulic pressure doesn't lower the gear but just releases it to drop. Heat didn't sever the flight controls as this is a fly by wire space craft and the bundles are located on the bottom of the orbiter below the wing. The left wing structurally detached from the orbiter from the heat degradation which led to loss of control and breakup.
@@jrockett73 right they received a wacked tire reading LOW, not high. The tire must have exploded. But like you stated prior to that they lost hydraulics. that in itself doomed the orbiter even if it didn't actually "flip over" (which it may have). but I believe like you mentioned they lost the wing due to thermal overload within same. I wonder if the crew was even aware of the possible damage that the foam may have caused. Were they ever informed? Probably not.
The crew was sent the same video that we all saw down here. Of course they were told it wasn't an issue for flight based on past history of foam shedding.
@@leecowell8165 i dont think they were aware..I dont even think NASA was aware...it wasnt discovered until after the fact (investigation rewatch of the launch)
seconds or minutes before the actual malfunction the noise alone would have been terrifying, and most of them probably knew what was likely to have been happening
They actually did know what was happening, look at the investigation report. It's heartbreaking
Probably making the best of a bad situation.
Houston knew a few mins before breakup when the heat punctures the landing gear bay and knocks out a tire ....
Why once they knew they were losing pressures and sensors, didn't they fire the main engines and go back up? Doesn't seem too late to try? Maybe they did.
@@ABC_1_2_353 if they got back into space another ship(s) could have come and rescued them
9 : 15 " No rush . Plenty of time "
How tragically ironic 😟
I can't help but believe the flashes of light they were seeing was coming from the shuttle.
"Its noisy in there , isn't it "
Watching this is unsettlingly creepy . A death ride
Those flashes of plasma are normal, because the Shuttle was travelling at very high speed (around Mach 20 or 18) during atmospheric reentry.
Do you mean 9:15?
Plasma around the vehicle is what SHOULD happen, and indeed it always happens. If it doesn't, Earth is in some serious problem. As well as every living thing on it. But, hey, thankfully the laws of physics are...laws, so you get no exceptions. What actually killed the astronauts is well-known
Agree... The Shuttle pilots may have been tipped off some time before reentry that there was damage during lift off...
They were going through rentry it being loud and those flashes are normal
RIP thank you for your service and will to go where few have gone. Heroes !
This breaks my heart. I can’t imagine how their family and friends must be feeling. Everything they felt 17 years back must be surfacing again watching this. I hope they can find courage and may these heroes RIP.
Everyone seemed so happy and calm and then one moment and they are gone. So chilling!
That's life regardless of the situation.
@@mikegLXIVMM well at least they went whilst living their dreams.
I love how he refers to this catastrophic event as a “mishap”, twice :-(
May these heroes of space RIP .
Mobius - 1 - - Give me som name, stories . Not just word's . Or a drawing 👀👍
what happend am not american am british scottish why do they not have anymore tapes
@@mobius-1503 - please don't breed...
@@mobius-1503 whatever pays the bills bitch
Mobius -1 why would they even share this video ya know. They will say it's for training but training for what? It's not like an astronot could hit the breaks or abort anything.. No disrespect to freemason stories but Challenger crew -1 are still alive.. I know I know it's their✌ twins✌ that magically appeared after the show. I thought it was amazing how hard they pushed ALL schools to broadcast the event and how odd we didn't focus so hard on any launches before or after that special launch with a teacher aboard.. I was duped too..
We were pulled over in a Dairy Queen parking lot in Lufkin, Texas when it came apart. There was a huge sound, and the DQ windows shook violently for several seconds. We didn’t realize what it was for a few minutes. When we got to Nacogdoches, we saw quite a few pieces of the shuttle being guarded by the National Guardsmen. At Al Mangum Regional Airport, there was a huge metal ball from the shuttle laying unguarded on the airstrip. We went right up to it. So sad.
Was it the DQ on Atkinson or John Redditt?
I think the huge sound and shaking was normal, as it was going several times the speed of sound.
MAY THE GENTLE SOULS OF ALL THESE HEROES AND HEROINES KEEP ON RESTING IN PERFECT PEACE.
@Donde Merlin what
*I remember this disaster vividly. I was driving on interstate 20 just west of Dallas. I literally pulled over and watched the smoke trail in different sections rain down on East Texas & Western Louisiana. You could see it that far away. As I traveled & continued East to Louisiana. I pulled over just before the State Line because I found a piece of cloth on the shoulder. It turned out to be an arm patch. I turned it in because it was the law. Poor souls.*
I want my arm patch back. I lost it in that exact location on that same day.
@@jefftX 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@tgmforum Since it looks like his comments were deleted, I don't know what he said, but how would he know not to touch any items on the ground??? In 2003, a lot of people didn't even use cell phones, so if they were on the road driving, they may not have heard the instructions that was given, unless they had the car radio on and just happened to be on a news station lol. Today in 2020, it's way different, because all of us have our face glued to our smart phones, so we don't miss any news lol, but in 2003 most people didn't stare at their electronic devices, if they even had an electronic device to begin with lol, some people back then only had a home computer, and that's it. In 2003 I was 17 years old, and I didn't even have my first cell phone yet lol, I got my first cell phone when I was close to 18, so probably later on in late 2003, and back then I was never up to date on breaking news, because if I wasn't on my computer at home, or sitting in front of the TV, I had no idea what was going on lol. Me personally, if I found that arm patch, this sounds wrong, but I probably would've kept it, at least he turned it in.
@Tanveer Kaur would you rather cry all day long or have a bit of humour?
@@justinexplainseverything1554 I do NOT use my cell when driving so I would not have heard anything unless it was posted by the government. I would probably have pulled over though and confirmed what I heard. I'm surprised that patch wasn't incinerated.
At 15:22 you can hear one of them say, "Yeah, you definitely don't want to be outside now"
Little did they know...😭
Mission control knew there would be a chance of them not making it with the damaged tiles. No choice, no rescue vehicle available to fetch them, no way of repairing the damage.
Incorrect- a Soyuz mission could have helped if they just stayed in orbit and it would have taken couple of a Soyuz missions or they could have been ‘shuttled ‘ to the ISS until next mission to get them back.
@@dealzguyYT And exactly how was Soyuz supposed to dock to a shuttle with no docking ring? Also, a Soyuz wouldn't have had enough fuel to make one trip back and forth, due to the lower orbit of Columbia. So no.
@@dealzguyYT There was absolutely no way a Soyuz could dock with the Columbia. They were planning to send another Shuttle (probably Atlantis) to try and rescue the crew but they canceled it.
Dealzguy unless they shipped a Soyuz to cape Canaveral that’s impossible
@@justinebautista1383 No, there was no plan to send Atlantis on a rescue mission as no one knew the extent of the damage. In the post-accident investigation, they looked at what would have had to have been done to prep Atlantis, and while probable, it was not found to be feasible due to time constraints and safety issues.
I’ve read two different accounts of whether or not the crew was told of their impending doom. This video makes me believe they were not.
This happened on a Saturday morning. I was working a stop gap hourly job to make ends meet and it was an inventory mandatory day. None of us wanted to be there. But as we watched the craft streak across the sky and burning, I said, 'well, I guess it's not so bad to be here doing inventory on a Saturday.'
I have never taken a look at the space program with a keen eye, but after seeing this I have so much respect for anyone who has done anything like go to space. RIP.
They passed doin what they loved and even had a little bit of a chuckle at the end, if i was on that shuttle i wouldnt have regreted a thing, you still keep living on as Hero´s guys. Lots of love from germany
You can’t regret anything bc you’ll be dead asf
They dont even know what happened..it was all too quick. The Challenger crew in 1986 at least were aware there was an explosion and were conscious as cockpit fell to the ocean....but this crew had no awareness what happened..
@@markherring3513 I'd rather be in the columbia disaster than challenger.
If you are going to spend billions of dollars to send people up there - I personally would think its a great idea to spend anoter few million to have a backup plan to have a rescue shuttle.
This is 2018 - does NASA have that plan yet?
Well considering they don't use the Shuttle anymore I am not sure if they need a backup plan
They wouldn't need one because the us government doesn't see the need in space exploration. Yet they will pay someone like Elon Musk to go to space for them because not surprisingly, the government still wants to put satellites and stuff into orbit.
They didn't have such a plan during the apollo program why think NASA would change that during the shuttle program?
They were aware of the foam hitting the wing and didn’t feel it was necessary to repair the damaged tiles or they would have performed these at the ISS.. or they could’ve launched another shuttle to begin repairs. This was the whole problem. After this disaster they made it a point to use cameras and do an end over end maneuver once reaching orbit to check for tile damage in subsequent missions until the program was ended in 2010
they had back up plans since 1970, what are you talking about.
Aww, the Indian woman is adorable to me . God blessed them all. .
She is 😫😭
Ya man Kalpana Chawla was an inspiration to us
Her accent is unmistakable
God didn’t bless anyone. Gtfo with that bs. You think this tragedy is a blessing from god?
South Asian, woman.
I wonder when he says its really noisy in here isnt it he was starting to sense something wasnt right??
mark holbrook I agree I think he was sensing something was off .
@smooth surface they would be dead the moment any air got in or out. Decrompression is a force to be reckoned with.
mark holbrook N.A.S.A. already knew the crew weren't going to survive but at lease could of told the crew R.I.P.
@@doge_ram7234 your face is a force to be reckoned with... I'm sorry that was lame of me.
It's all in your head
This is absolutely gut wrenching yet incredibly illustrative on the risks of spaceflight. People involved in spaceflight, both up there and on the ground, are some of the finest, most incredible people our species has produced. In memory of all those who lost their lives so we could benefit from the scientific discoveries of space.
15:21 "You definitely don't want to be outside now." Tragically they would soon be outside of the craft.
Do you know if it exploded, or did it slowly get destroyed
@adolfo pirelli actually the same happened with challenger. It was mostly gas and fire no explosion. It was a failure of an o ring which made a joint fail which then made one of the boosters roll and then it ripped itself to shreds. The crew was alive until they hit the water.
I salute our brave lady Kalpana Chawla and others astronauts. They never lost from our heart. I am proud of an Indian woman.
They died as Space Pioneers, very brave people to have even been taken part in the mission, God Bless them.
I noticed at some point Kalpana said "I think we've got jets firing in the back" (when landing the shuttle jets usually onlly fire during deorbit burn. They will start firing to help level it off if it's not perfectly aligned like its supposed to be) and then the guy saying "It's noisy in here."
At one point all jets were firing because the ship was trying to stay steady, but the hole in the wing was knocking it off the axis.
That is exactly right. The jets were on abnormally trying to compensate for the left wing problem.
when someone said “plenty of time,” my heart broke.. if they have known...
I wonder if the final moments were edited out. Astounding this footage survived.
They must have been ..I say this because I have seen it ...
As they were concerned about the pilots water pack being a danger to the control panels, they decide to take care of it, not knowing that would be the absolute least of their concerns as their lives would soon perish. I hate this and the Challenger Disaster, as they really show how small and fragile we are versus space.
PerpetratorX But the ISS is built differently I believe.
they lived longer in the challenger disaster.. took them 15 min to hit the water.. thats when they died.. when they hit the water.. unlke tehse people who burned alive. the challenger was not a shattering explosion.. it was not contained.. it was a whoosh explosion.. pushed not shattered.. they were all consious and awake all the way down to splash.. bet they would have given their right leg for a parachute.
My heart breaks so much for them after watching this. They were so excited, happy, and proud for what they did out there and what they should have been celebrating on Earth's soil, rather than the shitty reality of unprepared disaster dooming them in the end.
At least they got to go to space I reckon, and died with a sense of achievement
@@deneilbaker unlike challenger, which just launched when it exploded
That's all the mistake of NASA
@@mariajosephbaby yeah. They would have survived if it wasn't for the greediness 😒
Such a tragic loss. Things NASA learned from that horrible accident has helped to protect future astronauts and i thank them. R.I.P.
ya they learned that the shuttle was a death trap.. a design i wouldnt even send a dog up in.
yeah they ditched the shuttle. however they're still pursuing the usage of chemical rockets to explore space an absolutely STUPID idea to send organics out there with those things. You wanna send inanimate out there using that crude method? Fine. But stop sending PEOPLE out there because we need a much more controllable (survivable) method.
@@stumpedII a very expensive death trap!
@@livingtorture5745 and a beautiful death trap. It was decently safe, but it was also one of the most consistently dangerous spacecraft of all time.
It's more likely they simply didnt want to release the footage of the wreck, rather than it "just happened to cut off..."
That is doubtful. The tape cut off when the shuttle began to fail.
How very tragic to spend so very many years of training and likely thousands of hours in simulations to finally get the green light to be on the Columbia mission, only to have all of your lifelong efforts and dreams shattered in what was probably mere fractions of a second. I suppose it remains a small comfort knowing depressurization and unconsciousness would’ve occurred so quickly as to be painless and instantaneous. It feels pretty futile trying to fathom the magnitude of this loss though; I hope the surviving family and friends of the crew have found some peace over the years.
You know this is columbia right?
That's why you shouldn't fuck with dangerous shit. Fuck that.
James Robinson makes you wonder how many crazy evolved civilizations that took millions of years to develop that might’ve been vaporized in any number of super novas in less than an instant. So is life.
john gee thanks
Proud_Ape thanks I forgot. Edited my comment.
In a spacecraft, there is so much that the astronauts have absolutely no control over.
If the transmission in my car goes out, or if the brakes fail, I can take steps to ensure my safety and the safety of other drivers.
There's no fixing a broken heat shield when you're minutes away from reentry.
This is striking to me. Even though its obvious, it bears repeating. Every single last thing has to work properly, the first time. Zero margin of error. This is why manufacturing tolerances go down with each layer of risk. A electric motor for a car might cost $50.00. The same power motor in a marine application will cost 150. In a fighter jet will cost 500, and in a shuttle will cost $5000. Like always, you get what you payed for. The aero grade motor cost 100x the automotive grade one does, but will offer 100x the reliability. Also taking 100x the expense to manufacture. Much better materials, design, testing, and quality controls. This is why rocket science is an interchangeable phrase to describe something impossibly hard to do lol.
@@ctdieselnut We have shuttled exploding because an o-ring was too cold. Space the Universe is beyond extremities and unforgiving. Random space objects, gamma ray bursts, planet with storms that make the fiercest Earth storm feel like a gentle spring breeze. Maybe the cruelest reality is that no lifeform regardless of it's intelligence without the laws of this Universe is meant to travel to other stars.
I was shocked when they realized from the start that the shuttle was doomed ... they had so much time to decide and come up with a plan but instead they gave up on them ... you're telling me they couldn't get Soyuz rocket to launch a rescue mission in time, they had so many options but instead, they let them die ... they never told them ... how do you make a decision to let them die and not tell them ....... man ... that's something somebody lives with for the rest of their lives.
Launching a shuttle takes weeks of planning, and with how fast the shuttles go, and the rotation of the Earth, even if a shuttle was somehow always on stand-by, they would never reach the shuttle. There is a reason way it can be days, or even weeks before a shuttle or rocket can launch if there is an issue with launch, flight windows are extremely short.
Soyuz hold three astronauts at most. There are 7 here and Soyuz would need a pilot on the way up. This is impossible for that many people, regardless of the absolutely innumerable logistical problems.
They didn't know that it was doomed. There had been previous times that pieces of foam hit a shuttle on takeoff with no problems afterwards. This time was just bad luck.
14:03 what are those lights?
if you have seen other re-entry videos from inside there are flashes like that. so it could be normal plasma from the 3,000 degree superheating that occurs on every flight. the problem with Columbia was not the plasma outside. but its entry into the damaged wing
Sam D. Well said; that pretty concisely explains it
They discuss it in the video. The early quick white flashes are Reaction Control Thrusters that orient the vehicle and the later orange glows are the atmosphere heating up around the surfaces of the craft creating a hot plasma. This is an expected sight during reentry and one of them even says "Wait till you start seeing the swirl patterns out your left and right windows"
The lights are completely normal. Just plasma due to reentry.
The white flashing is from the thrusters keeping the vehicle orentiented. If you use Kerbal Space Program you can get a pretty good understanding of that.
Very Haunting. The only thing I could compare it to would be like being on a Submarine. The Thresher was believed to implode before the crew could even realize it. 😔
Subtitles would be amazing.
Jeff, if you mean closed caption it has it. If you mean subtitles in another language, that is another story. But the next of kin need to SUE the shit out of nasa. I am sure there is a way to do this if it has not been done yet.
UK bashing this year! Go cats
@@bonchidude all these people are alive!! Google NASA hoax
@@stefandwoodham The shuttle blew up. How can they live through that. And in 2003 the other shuttle broke up during reentry. How does anyone survive that one? They must have some secret technology or something.
Can you do it? NASA wont pay either hahaha
All these years later still very sad. R.I.P Columbia crew.
So many idiots here.
Columbia suffered tile damage during liftoff resulting in a loss of control and breakup upon re entry.
Challenger was blown apart during accent by a leaking o ring in the srb melting through the main tank.
It is likely the Challenger crew were alive until impact with the sea.
It is impossible that anyone was alive on Columbia entering the atmosphere at 17,000 mph without a space craft.
Before you comment, look it up.
Amen my brother....Scary how people ( sheeple?) just don't even bother to think for themselves these days....Only regurgitate some crap they've read , on social media somewhere no doubt . Laughably pathethic....
What's that got to do with the price of tea in China?
Matthew Edwards thanks RUclips comment nazi.
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Idk I dont think challenger pilots were alive when the shuttle hit the ocean huge explosion when your strapped to fuel that's designed to burn in an oxygen free and oxygen rich environment I believe they were dead quickly too
14:42 “Looks like a blast risk.”
*blast furnace
Ashok how do you actually hear blast furnace for that
@@yodagaming4164 .. headphones
Ashok thank you!
@@yodagaming4164 Yea, heard it on the first listen!! Get some headphones my friend!! 🤦♂️😎😘
15:22 "You definitely don't want to be outside now". More like you don't want to be outside OR inside now.
I cannot express how I feel with this. Just watching her slim hands putting on her gloves & she talking away . All of it is so haunting😢😢brave souls😢😢
I remember NASA announcing that they DID in fact have the tape of their final seconds and the cockpit bursting in flames. NASA said that they would not show it to the public but the families could come to watch these final moments as long as they knew how horrible the outcome would be.
Ridiculous ! The camera lost power right at the moment of breakup because its power source is the orbiter. And likely what happened is that Laurel turned off the camera at the first sign of trouble per protocol.
@@jrockett73 Most cameras have batteries
The Sony XC-555 camera has no batteries and only records video and not audio. It uses a cable like I said before that connects directly to the orbiters 28V system. I installed it.
NASA never made such an announcement.
lawrence mulloy is an example of blind ambition. Mulloy was quoted “I feel no guilt” People who feel no guilt can have a great time on this earth.
Great exploration leads to loss of life at times. Its just the way the world works
Ever since I found out this accident I gave up my dream of goin to the moon 😞
I also have second thoughts
I’ve always wanted to go to the moon- and this did make me second guess when I learned about it, but ultimately, it’s a risk I’d be ready to make to advance humanity.
Don’t even think that now we have much better technology and control over these rockets they are much safer keep chasing your dreams😃😃😃😃
Same i used to cry if someone would tell me u cant go to moon but now i understand why
Same it just makes me scared what NASA has done nothing hasn’t helped… I gave up after I watched “Challenger The Final Flight” on Netflix. RIP for all people how lived up to there dream and died in the space program..
RIP
Rick Husband
(1957-2003)
William C. McCool
(1961-2003)
Michael P. Anderson
(1959-2003)
Kalpana Chawla
(1962-2003)
David M. Brown
(1956-2003)
Laurel Clark
(1961-2003)
and
Ilan Ramon
(1954-2003)
Twenty one years ago today, RIP Columbia Crew.
@@YouthFreedomFighters They’ll be missed. 😢💔🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇮🇱
With all due respect to astronaut Altman's statement RE: the viewable tape having "spooled" & therefore was not destroyed (it was clearly a compact/small camera they were handing back & forth. As soon as the video of the Shuttle Break-up was shot the tape would have almost immediately "spooled" & should have also been saved) seems a convenient excuse......The "official line" that the 10 minutes or so of video, that would have shown the beginnings of The Break-Up of the shuttle & the ensuing panic on board, were destroyed..... But that these 13 minutes immediately before that were recovered virtually pristine, fails The credibility smell test. You can't blame the federal government and NASA though, you just can't put that raw footage out there; it would have only served a sadistic voyeuristic urge.
Javier Solorzano true
Yes. Extremely suspicious that this camera only spooled up and saved this amount of video and cut off the destruction.!! They would have set it up and recorded the entire return.!!
All of NASA's credibility falls short if you ask me.
so you dont understand how cameras with finite memory work and insert your tin foil into the vaccum left by your ignroance. ok
Can you explain the last pat of that without using big words @javier
Hard to imagine that just after a few minutes all that sophisticated equipment including those brilliant astronauts will be vaporized. Just sad.
This footage sends chills up my spine every single time. Just knowing these astronauts will die in a few minutes. Haunting, every single time.
I am still surprised at how over modulated and distorted the audio on the microphones in the space suits are. What are the microphones are too close to the peoples mouths or the gain sensitivity is set too high. I would’ve thought that after many shuttle missions. The engineers working on the communications systems. Would have been able to dial-in proper gain staging for these microphones so they would not be distorted, but instead clearly audible.
bless them all-------brilliant , brave and whats eerie is they are so normal doing their final checks and have no idea they are on their way to "the other side'
What a loss. Heart wrenching to see this.
Imagine how horrible it would be to believe that your control room/crew capsule was safer than the safest plane, but while finally getting home, you feel the heat and then your capsule catches on fire, with everyone burning in just mere seconds, then the capsule explodes from the heat and everything gets torn into pieces..
These are definitely NOT “the final moments” since NASA cut recordings a minute or so short
The full video used to be on here but i think it was taken down out of respect. All it showed was the camera glitching and going dark as the shuttle broke apart.
That minute never existed. Laurel Clark stopped the camera.
@@SymphonyBrahms Either she stopped the camera or severe forces did, for sure.
What damaged the shuttle and wats the flash en light outside??? Ps I'm no expert but that really loud bangen was defo a sign somethings wrong big time
it's electrical flashes/friction flames from re-entry into the atmosphere at 25,000 KPH....
Remember this, live in East Texas. It woke me up and the windows shook!! And, was curious, at about 11:50 the pilot or other man in the front said "That's all I can do. 3 and a half bags out of 4". What is he talking about!? Does it have to do with hydrating themselves? Thanks
It takes a certain kind of fortitude and strength to be crammed in a tin can in outer space. I am having a panic attack just watching and a strong feeling of claustrophobia. No way I could do that. I would quickly go insane. Salute to all the brave men and women who do this thing and r.i.p. to those who died trying. 🙏
SuryaDas Same. Especially going as fast as they go.
@@Kymv8382 Right?!? It's nuckin' futs! 🚀👨🚀🇺🇲
Yes it's phobiatic in nature to sit that narrow Capsule
Doesn't show final moments.....shows final moments, before the final moments....
About 15 minutes later, they were all torn to pieces and sent crashing into the ground at 18 times the speed of sound. Just beyond comprehension.
Once the fuselage broke open they were exposed to temperatures of thousands of degrees. They were instantly incinerated.
That lady is Kalpna Chawla, she is inspiration for most of the female Indian austronauts
What terror these astronaut heroes must have experienced in those final moments of their lives. It must have felt like an eternity.
its outright haunting trying to watch this. I couldn't get through it. it ended at what 07:46 CST? they had about 15 minutes to live after this ended. They had no clue because they were informed about the tire failure only minutes before they met their demise. That musta been VERY unsettling knowing that at best they were gonna hafta make an emergency landing at the cape. however once they lost hydraulics (which I believe occurred first) the orbiter was essentially doomed right there. They may have actually lost control before it disintegrated but by then it didn't matter. now they were executing maneuvers before this but how is that accomplished IF they don't have enough atmosphere to operate within? There must be rocket powered thrusters on board? Must be.
What’s terrible about this is they had already performed the de-orbit burn. There was no way of saving the crew at this point. They did not have enough fuel to accelerate back to a stable orbit. They were as good as dead at this point they just didn’t know it yet.
And what would be the point of returning to orbit? To wait there until you die of starvation?
What I find chilling about these types of videos of "mishaps" or accidents, the passengers have no idea there life is about to end in seconds or minutes. Sound like in this case, they suspected something was wrong and still concentrated on trying to "right the ship". God Bless them. True american heroes.
One little piece of foam insulation coming loose sadly killed all 7 on board.The' Challenger' however was an o-ring gasket that became too cold.Sometimes the fine, minute details turn into monsters and probability is thrown out of the window . Fate and death then collude and the horror is born.
Wow! You surely can write!!!
The fact that people on the ground kinda knew what was about to happen, but they kept it hidden from the crew because nothing could’ve been done is crazy. Crew were doomed their entire flight in space
I remember when this happened. Pieces started falling onto the ground in Azle Texas. I live in Fort Worth and heard something hit my roof. Years later at a neighborhood watch gathering, a neighbor down the street his house got hit as well. The piece I have matched his piece of plastic in size and color. They were not burned or melted. On the news Joe Public found larger pieces in East Texas. I remember seeing a helmet in pristine shape. It was found in the woods. I thought after seeing the helmet that they lived longer than we surmised. I remember when they found the movie film in Palestine,Texas as it was a week or two later. I believe both crews lived consciously longer than we were told. I am an ICU nurse of more than 35 years and have been with many dying patients. Even those afraid of going to Hell seemed to die peacefully. The tension left their bodies and their faces relaxed. Those that died and returned thirty minutes later described a wonderful experience. They knew it wasn't their time and were satisfied. They were not alone in Spirit when they crossed over. Some people met relatives,St.Peter at the Gate and Jesus. Some patients told me of "limbo land".