I saw it disintegrate from my back porch in Dallas. One of worst feelings I’ve ever felt in my entire life. I can’t even begin to imagine what friends and family of the crew are feeling. God bless them all.
There is a difference between the inherent, unavoidable dangers with strapping people to a 8 minutes continueos, somewhat controlled explosion followed by reentry at crazy temperatures and the negligence that caused the loss of both Challenger and Columbia… In both cases normalization of deviance caused NASA admin to ignore the warnings already given.
Yes they are , as they believed in the support teams that sent them off , in questionable conditions. They are optimistic people who are also willing to gamble with their lives, for the projects they are affiliated with. Maybe, there is also a little touch of not wanting to know, what they themselves cannot fix. A little gambler attitude with a lot of hope, it will turn out well. Truly, superior human beings. We should never forget them......
Not me. My first experience with this kind of thing was at 10 years old watching the Challenger explode on TV in my 4th grade classroom. 🤦♀️ Our poor teacher was just horrified! 💔
Having been alive to witness both complete shuttle failures, Challenger in 1986 & Columbia in 2003, I have to say Columbia hits a lot harder since NASA was already clearly aware of this issue and did nothing about it. Then to find out that the foam that caused the initial damage was completely unnecessary really makes your heart go out to those who lost their lives in this incident as well as their family & friends.
NASA was also aware of the risk of frigid overnight temperatures affecting the O-ring seals in the solid rocket booster joints on Challenger. They decided to proceed with the launch anyway to avoid the embarrassment of delaying yet another launch, with disastrous results. I recommend reading up on the late engineer Allan MacDonald who refused to sign off on the launch of Challenger. He famously said "If anything happens to this launch, I wouldn't want to be the person that has to stand in front of a board of inquiry to explain why we launched."
@@Codgerism very true, maybe it was just the fact that I was a 6 year old kid when Challenger happened that I feel that Columbia just hit me a little more. Maybe it was just that it happened a second time in my lifetime. Don't get me wrong though I am not trying to discount the tragedy of Challenger at all.
They knew about it but what was the best decision to inform the crew? Tell them "Houston here, you have a problem" or just not let them know at all? The final decision was that it was best to not let them know they were going to die. If they did, they'd stay in space and run out of oxygen and other recourses.
@@abrahamg3354 except they could have easily saved the crew of Columbia had NASA not declined imaging of the damaged wing… They already had another shuttle launching scheduled, so NASA could have made the decision to have the space shuttles meet in orbit and then they would have transferred the Columbia crew over to the shuttle that was safer for reentry… NASA said so themselves that they had until day 7 to figure out about the damaged wing to be able to save the crew but NASA denied the imaging of the left wing to find the damage before attempting reentry so they never sent the other shuttle for a rescue mission... So NASA not being able to do anything to help the crew is a lie. They CHOSE not to help the crew and risk their lives for no reason.
They were clearly aware of the O Ring Problems too. The guy warned them up until launch. They ignored it. The Challenger exploded. I too witnessed both. I was 5 for Challenger. I remember that day too. Probably better then I do Columbia. Strange.
When discussing John Glenn's ride on the first Atlas-Mercury launch, one of the Mercury astronauts explained that if Glenn had died in a launch failure, the remaining six would have all gone to the funeral, then the next morning stood in line to get the next launch. It was just a unique mindset explorers have. Godspeed to all who've given their lives for space exploration.
Glenn was on the third Mercury mission, not the first. Alan Shepard, followed by Grissom were first and second. Glenn was the first to orbit, the others had sub-orbital missions.
@@gevansmd1 true, but Glenn’s mission was the first to use the Atlas booster, which made it the first Mercury-Atlas mission, and a hell of a lot more dangerous, given past experience with the Atlas.
My mom was in the beginning stages of dementia back then, but when I got home and told her about the shuttle break up, she still had enough "wherewith all" that she knew this was serious business and that some beautiful people had just lost their lives! I sat down at the kitchen table and we both wept awhile while at the same time uttering the words Not again lord! NOT again!!! No, I will likely never forget that day!!!
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I worked at the Department of Defense Manned Spaceflight Support Office (DDMS) during the Columbia tradegy. Essentially we were in charge of astronaut rescue. I briefed the Columbia crew at KSC about two weeks before the flight during the dry run (TCDT). They all seemed very excited and positive. A honor to have met them.
@@chucks_88 Yep. Just saw it. Stationed at Patrick AFB from 1999-2003 for about 18 launches. Was the deployed commander for the rescue forces that were postured at Ramstein AB in Germany for the Columbia launch. Also was the DoD liaison to NASA at Barksdale AFB for two weeks during debris recovery and shipment. This video probably was put on my feed because I watched similar videos before. Just happened to be there. That's all.
I was in Antarctica when Columbia broke up. I was in the TV room with many other people, and when the disaster unfolded, there was a stunned silence which was a reminder of the Challenger disaster. May they all, both the crew of Challenger and Columbia, Rest In Paradise.
I remember EXACTLY where I was standing for both Challenger AND Columbia. I love space and NASA. I grew up building models of the space shuttle. I flew a model rocket of the Shuttle, I remember getting orange paint all over everything finishing the external tank. I lost a booster and had to display the model half hidden behind my Saturn rocket. But I have never been so relieved about anything having to do with manned space exploration as I was when the last shuttle landed and everyone was still alive. My anxiety level went up with every launch. I don't think I ever missed a launch on TV. I saw about half the landings. But I seriously considered leaving the TV off for the last 5 or 6 missions. I'm glad that period of space exploration is over.
I remember watching the Challenger disaster live in class. It was horrifying, especially considering that it didn’t have to happen- and the fact that the crew might have been alive for a significant portion of the freefall made it even worse. I saw the Columbia disaster as well, live on tv. After reading the final report, I take cold comfort in knowing that the crew was rendered unconscious before they were blasted apart by the insane forces their bodies were exposed to.
No they didn't they where cursing and screaming in anguish at their completely avoidable predicament, they suffered inside that intact crew compartment, they suffered immensely.
@@Veldtian1 Columbia broke up while it was still flying at *mach 12* and over 200,000 feet. There might have been a few seconds of terror when the Shuttle was out of control, but once the cabin came apart, death would have instantaneous. They didn't feel anything.
@@ct6502-c7w, at that speed any loss of stability leads to immediate destruction because of immensely huge G loads. Destruction is as fast as a detonation. So the entire crew must have been dead or unconscious a fraction of a second after the vehicle has lost its aerodynamic stability.
Part of the shuttle came down in my yard in Western Louisiana on the border of Texas. We reported it and government officials picked it up. It was a very upsetting and disturbing thing to know that the parts in my yard were just recently the shuttle, very sad.
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@@Emotionless68 why not? NASA needed all the data they could get in order to determine the failure so they could protect and save more lives in the future. The commenter did the right thing.
Seeing that foam come off and hit the wing is spine-chilling. Anything coming off of a spacecraft during launch or flight is always a bad sign. What’s even more spine-chilling is thinking about what the astronauts went through, what they saw on their end…
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@Michael Scott , If you have vision problems, it exacerbates the problem. Don't feel bad, there's quite a few comments on this video concerning that issue. We're not alone.
Right? I'm sure the creator doesn't suffer this problem but I'm watching it whilst a little bit baked from a spliff. It's moving too goddamn fast for my addled brain!
After the Challenger loss I always wondered why there wasn't some kind of fuselage inspection once in orbit. I know the Challenger and Columbia were lost due to two completely separate failures. But the two most dangerous parts of space travel are the moments between main engine start to main engine cut off (MICO) and re-entering the atmosphere. Once in orbit most failures can be dealt with. Look at Apollo 13, they were on the way to the moon when they had an explosion. They managed to go around the moon and return safe. And that was in 1970. It wasn't until after the Columbia that they started doing heat tile inspections in orbit. They should have started that in the 1980's! If they noticed a heat shield missing from the Columbia they could have possibly figured out a way to fix it or rendezvous with the space station or ask the Russians for an emergency rescue mission. The Columbia was doomed before it left the atmosphere.
This is honestly a really great idea. And it’s to have a recovery spaceship with however many seats are needed from the doomed spacecraft including 2 pilots. Just have the recovery space ship sitting at some station, ready. When the crew is in orbit and their craft is reported as doomed, the recovery craft can go to space and save them.
@@madbrit5053 Well obviously it wasn’t a very useful one to the Columbia, so maybe the main commenter has a point. There should be a new recovery craft. One that operates like Elon Musks Tesla functions. Not in the charging aspect cause that’s wishful thinking. In the aspect that every craft that goes into space could have a computer that is connected to the outgoing spacecraft. The communications should speak to each other, so if anything goes wrong it can signal to the recovery spacecraft and already get sent off to its coordinated craft in distress. A computer so good that it would know before communications below.
@@EmmaGrizzlyRose2.0 A recovery craft would be pointless. In 90% of situation it would be a second vehicle of the same design so the same problem on launch could occur, this would ground most craft. As pointed out the most dangerous part of space flight is between main engine start and main engine cut off. There is no recovery in space you either leave earth with everything you need to get back or you die. You can jury rig or repurpose much of your equipment but there is no help up there. The speed involved prevent anything from matching you in a timely fashion. As for repairs while in space throw that out the window as well, while there is no weight at orbital speeds if there is a problem with your reentry vehicle you are dead, this was not cracked tiles that need replacing this was damage to the leading edge. People have come up with plans that may have saved the crew but I don't think a single one would have worked.
There was a request for an inspection, to the Air Force, which had a telescope capable of it. The inspection was nixed by a senior person at Nasa for bureaucratic reasons.
I remember watching this in high school. Ironically, with the same teacher who I had class with when 9/11 happened. She was a great teacher and new how to talk us through these tragic events and inspire understanding over fear.
@@TheOriginalSide1 Crash happened 9am central time. The latest time zone at that moment would be 2am SST Saturday I believe. So unless he had school at 2am on a Saturday then I think you're sh*t out of explanations. Idk why you feel compelled to create impossible solutions to this. The OP is obviously being dramatic or making it up
@@idontknowmuch3441 I saw the interviews on the dark web about 4 months after the "tragedy" . very few people knew about that part of the web years ago. then I followed up with names and teaching positions and it was all true. some said they were the twin, others just denied the accusations. I think NASA need to cancel that part of their agenda. do you realize that Appollo astronaut, Aldrin, has said on TV recently that we did not land on the moon.? amazing. you can prabably find that.
@@idontknowmuch3441 yes he did..he was at a kindergarden school and was asked by a child if he had really landed..Aldrin said NO. we never did. so look it up using schools, etc. let me know if you find it.
I remember the very first flight to the moon and how it was such a big deal. I loved watching it and I was at school that day. I have been a huge fan of our space flights, studies etc ever since and when we all witnessed these two tragedies how shockingly sad it was. You felt like you witnessed your very own family members die. It sucked the joy right out of you and replaced it with the worst loss a person can have. My heart almost failed me and I mourned the loss with our Nation and our Astronauts families. God rest their souls. Such wisdom and shivery they possessed.
The Challenger was 1986. The designs for the o ring area was redesigned later for added safety because of ice danger. My father was born in 1935 he died in 2016 just shy of being 81. He outlived my mother ten years seven months. I greatly miss both of them, I was extremely close to both. I dedicated my life in taking care of them. I swore an oath to the Pentagon to do so. I was one of only 5 people in the whole of the USAF to do so. I still cry daily to this day missing them.
I’m a 69yo USAF VETERAN and retired Corporate Pilot. You are an amazing person. Just from what you wrote here had me tearing up. Stay strong and maybe we will meet someday in heaven. God Bless.
I will say somehow these videos never seem morbid or come off as for profit in the loss of life. It actually seems to humanize the tragedy and allow us a more in depth view of something we would never have the option to gain this kind of information about. I find these actually take the tragedy aspect out of these events and bring us closer to the people inside these moments! Unfortunately, they are not moments we wish to experience or witness...
1. Please hire a new text editor, and have them re-read all of your text entries. You will find about a dozen mistakes. Valiant effort. 2. Hire a new graphics editor - showing an astronaut on the moon during a shuttle flight? Showing a Russian nuclear control room? Showing the Endeavor during a presentation on the Columbia?
Simple quick transitons too. Dissolves are all you need. Good video over all though. The edits by Mr. Watson and myself are just to help make it better.
I just can’t ever help but imagine the last things on their minds while this was happening. Did they know they were going to die? It’s just so hard to process how these incredible human beings with incredibly vast knowledge can just be gone in an instant.
I have had the same feeling. But I remind myself that astronauts are risk takers. There is no other way to get past the reality of strapping themselves to a machine that is going to take them from 0 to 17,500 in 8 minutes. For me, I feel we honor all of their lives by continuing the explore.
They probably knew something was wrong when reentry started. They probably had sensors saying the left wing was too hot. But there was nothing they could do. Thank God their death was fast after it started to break up. I like to think they knew, but when it happened, they didn't feel a thing.
@@livetotell100 Yeah. There were sensors showing issues but there were issues in trying to understand what the sensors were actually showing. There was a point on the ground that they just thought there was a sensor malfunction problem. What really saddens me is that there was a ghost of Challenger in this disaster. There had been prior foam strikes yet they did little or nothing to address the problem. Was there ever consideration of having all of the tank insulation contained within the tank rather than affixed to the exterior of the tank? As with Challenger, NASA knew there were issues but did nothing.
@@livetotell100 they did not die. a red flag death. some claimed they were twins when confronted. others were teachers in eastern schools. you can research is maybe, but don't use google
How could anybody take this slapped together doco seriously. What a total disprect to the mission specialist. She was a brilliant lady and you couldn't get her name right. Her name was not David Kalpana Chawla. This video is littered with typos and is a disgrace to the memory of the Columbia crew.
Capt. David Brown was not just a Navy Captain. He was a Medical doctor and USN Flight Surgeon. He was our flight Surgeon at NAS Adak Alaska and a good friend.
@@michaelarchangel1163 I have never heard that but then I am not an astronaut. The ones I know are not the type of people that would give up and use something like that.
@@macworks9389 I asked because I only recently learned that death is instantaneous when a submarine implodes, and because burning caused many people to jump when the twin towers were on fire. There's nothing cowardly about it, in my opinion.
@@michaelarchangel1163 I didn't make a judgement about people doing that in other situations nor did I call anyone a coward. What I can tell you is those of us who do dangerous things such as test fly aircraft, fly off of aircraft carriers, serve in submarines, or go into space are not normally the type of people that resign themselves to failure in any circumstance. May I commend you to the Apollo 13 story.
Love the presentation. However... if you can edit the video, you might consider correcting all the misspellings and adding spaces where they are missing. Still... loved it!!
Great job as usual! I remember The Challenger and The Columbia. Those poor souls. I have tears in my eyes thinking about it. The loss to the families and the space program! God bless them all!
Nearly 20 years on this is still very hard to watch. Columbia was my favourite of the Space Shuttles ever since the first launch. It’s so sad to see them just a museum piece now. To those brave seven, forever rest in peace.
Great book called "Bringing Columbia Home" Great read and tells the story of those who gave all and others who did the amazing job finding all the Astronauts for the family's and those who found the pieces of Columbia and returning her to the Cape.
Thank you for honoring this crew ❤ I remember when this happened and how heartbroken I felt. 💔 excellent work sharing this tragic story🌹 thank you and well wishes to you and to all who read this🌹💗
It’s a dangerous job, these people are also hero’s for risking their lives to get data for scientists to examine, such a sad day for the space community.
WHAT KILLED MY HEART WAS THAT I LOVED THE INDIAN ASTRONAUT 💔 WHEN I KNEW IN SCHOOL THAT SHE DIED MY HEART BROKE .SHE HAD A SOUL OF AND ANGEL .. RIP 🙏 CHAWLA WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU. RIP TO ALL OF THEM
she went back to teaching in some eastern college. it was a fake death. they needed some way to stop the project. reaseach not with google. so many things have been removed from the time line.
@@tiogacaltelcom and I suppose that was a fake shaking of my house as they broke up overhead and fake pieces of shuttle found all over East Texas. Get a life.
The animation shows the Shuttle Endeavor. I was watching the reentry of Columbia live. When I saw two contrails I became concerned. When I saw more contrials I knew this was very bad.
In memory of the heroes, Siwe are only part of a whole, but heroes one day when we travel further into space, those who made this possible will be remembered. Greetings from Germany, Live long and prosper
While residing in north Dallas, I was standing in the doorway and heard a "BOOM" sound and then my doorway and house made a sound. (when homes settle crack noise) I went into my backyard and saw two white streams going across the sky at a faster speed. Not like when planes leave white marks. I could see something in front of one of the large white streams. Then my neighbors were coming out too because they too heard it and felt their homes make a 'settling' sound. My children were in Douglas, Texas (next to Nacogdoches) visiting their Mimi. They called me and said they were using "flags to mark the metal parts of the shuttle". My small children were 'excited' to help out saying it felt like an Easter Egg hunt. They said that some police and men came to Mimi's house and told them not to touch any of the metal as it could have chemicals on it and could be harmful. Their Mimi took a few pictures of the flagged parts of the Space Shuttle. When I saw the pictures? It was so surreal and realized the lives lost associated with the parts found on Mimi's property and my children helping in their own ways but not fully recognizing what had happened at the time.
I remember Challenger. I was sick that day so I watched the launch from home. There was so much confusion. No one knew what to say. The cameras kept focusing on the small part with the parachutes thinking that the astronauts might have been saved.
Columbia was the very first space shuttle, piloted by John Young and Robert Crippen. I vividly remember the magic of watching live video feeds from it on that maiden voyage while in high school. I stayed glued to the TV nearly 24 hours a day during that time. When the Columbia was finally lost, it felt like losing an old friend or family member. I was crushed!
Yes I watched it when I was in school to, nobody did in my class. Still nobody cares for more then just their boring lives. Thank god for the internet.
@@sonnyburnett8725 , The Columbia was the shuttle used in STS-1, the very first shuttle mission into space. The Enterprise never reached space. It was just a test platform. If you want to argue that Enterprise was "first" on the grounds that without its existence the shuttle program couldn't proceed, then you also could argue that the first drawing on the back of a napkin constituted the "first" space shuttle because without that drawing, the shuttle program probably wouldn't have started. The internet is full of people just looking to start an argument over trivial details... SMH
With a little bit of favor on the OP's side, the simulator he used has a space shuttle but only one livery is available to use being the Endeavor to my knowledge. I don't think he had a choice.
My mum saw it enxplode into pieces because her friend was one of the astronauts family member and they watched from our porch because our house is close to nasa and when it came down it exploded and her friend fell to her knees crying saying my nephew was there….save the lord.
My boyfriend in the 80’s worked for Morton Thiokol in Utah on the Shuttle Booster 🚀 🧨 Rockets ORings after the Challenger Disaster in 1986...May the Crews of Both Shuttles RIP with God in Heaven among the Stars ⭐️ ✨ 💫
As I have been preaching and will never stop although I realize that the chances of My success is nearly nothing I will say this again totally serious and you can take this anyway you want to look at it when in the hell are you people who believe NASA was real I got to learn how to stop trusting that God damn Nazis..... NASA as it is I'll say again is your dog and pony show girls and boys to draw your attention to a drama of what you're seeing of sadness cereal grief victory agony defeat and success that is a Broadway play only well the real space program is doing things that I wouldn't even want to begin to imagine that's just how serious and at what level the line is really at but look at what you people call I always never went to the moon that's impossible because there's a bad all about in the way that's part of a script in a Broadway play not reality reality is way beyond that danger that's all the problems that have been presented to you all these years we're already solved and we've headed in other words directions of greater interest Barbie on your imagination while you're stuck here and this shuttle story that looks very real and really was actually used for actual helping production important who the hell knows is really going on but it's not anymore real ass the fact that trains and planes and trucks are used for transportation in the Publix commercial world whereas your wildest sci-fi guests is going on on places like the moon where they've been mining helium 3 for 20 years is the latest rumor now that as it gets to the plot thickens is becoming even hard for me to believe but the horror here is the possibility that it is real the stories that we don't actually know anything about like the fact that there was a military operation going on on the moon for 5 years before the NASA public dog and pony show arrived on the moon that's easily debunked purposely orchestrated so it can be.. . If I sound rude aggressive sarcastic and downright attacking you that's exactly what I feel I don't expect you to understand all my hates dislikes and frustration and it's not fair to take it out on you but you seem to be the handiest punching bag at the moment that's just how drought and drained..as was Dr. Leonard H. "Bones" McCoy ... What's really going on is portrayed every day in the Sci-Fi Plex starting back as far as the first Star Trek the movie when bones came aboard the new and improved Enterprise and said after he looked around and said "engineers they just love to change things".... I suppose I shouldn't take it out in the public as I can see your side of it as you can't possibly understand that what's really going on inside our space program it's not exactly the wild technology that's in the movies but the stats are the personal ramifications of real people in real situations it's more far advanced than it has ever been portrayed in sci-fi as there's way more behind the curtains and just some common rockets going here and going there.... As I have said it before when the hell is a goddamn public going to learn to stop trusting a goddamn Nazis. And the irony here is the fact that you don't have a f****** clue what I just said and I'm literally talking about that God damn Nazis who run this country run NASA and always have sense of Operation paperclip with you have been let you believe never happened but until someone in the millennial age as a group of miles and step forward as your spokesman and tell you what I'm saying we are all totally f***** you're f***** you're f*** forever and you'll never become unfucked as a God damn Nazis out here been here since 1949 and we're invented by the Queen of England who started world war II and invented Hitler as you just don't get it you don't see the big picture because it's not praise or dignified or notified that it is what it's all about God damn it it's the f****** Illuminati royal family oh yeah yeah now I'm a bad s*** crazy conspiracies aren't I every time anyone tries to come forward and I will never stop you can shoot me down before I'll stop but it's way more than money it's way more than popularity it's a thing that commoners like us cannot even fathom because it's a simple as f****** power not just agreed but the pleasure of being the one who calls the shots I don't understand how it goes to the Head and controls the minds of the elite the body that's as stupid and dumb f*** as he can be that's the biggest percentage of the whole f****** thing it's a stupid power Trip people get on and I can see it yeah the money is nice and comes in handy but at this point in my life if I had a big pile of money I'd blow it instantly on stupid s*** just to try and see if it'll work well guess what that's what you do every day for for really actually nothing better to do serious that's how life becomes for the next level up of society as we would go awesome and all and wow if we were taking a walk through their toy shops the types of heaven knows what has just been said is far beyond Gene rod and Marion George Lucas ever thought of.... As for real no s*** yours truly had a little cleanup job and dancing both circle perfectly around the one ton over in thick 316 I think it was stainless but it was an hour and a stainless that just so happened to be a pulse jet detonation after burner type Venturi that was being implied to the next generation space planes of the Aurora program that wasn't just a particular airplane but a series of designs of airplane that fly in the weightless airless vacuum of space and if you thinking I'm talking Jules Burns and Buck Rogers yes that's what I'm talking about and so now you probably want to know how that's possible and are going to proclaim that I'm bat s*** crazy because that's totally impossible right.
@@crasherxtreme the shuttle program was put on notice to end by President Bush in 2004. The last flight was in 2011 on President Obama's watch. Some of the reasons were cost, slow turnaround, few customers, 2 wars, etc. I get it. You don't like President Obama which is fine but no, it want because of him the program ended. That program needed to end anyway. It did what it needed to do. Got more than just a few test pilots into space, integral part in the construction of the ISS, Hubble Satellite deployment among many other things but it's use is no longer needed as we can see.
Feedback . . . * The thumbnail was clickbait -- no breaking up of the shuttle was seen during the entirety of the video * The shuttle depicted was _Endeavor_ , not _Columbia_ -- you could have at least included a bit of an apology in the text; any reasonable reason you gave would have made the error/shortcoming understandable * The fancy wipes were distracting, and the "spinning" effect was as well * Much of the text blew by just a little too fast for me to read them in their entirety (and I'm not a bad reader), I had to resort to pausing each time * At least five typos in the text, and I wasn't really looking for them until after the first two Overall, false advertising, a lack of attention to detail, and too much unnecessary "chrome". However the music was nice and I didn't notice any factual errors. (Incidentally I was on my apartment balcony in Austin, Texas -- about 200 miles to the south -- when the whole neighborhood shook from a massive sonic boom. A friend called shortly after and told me about the disaster.)
Medical doctors, naval officers, AND astronauts all in one resume 😮 I couldn’t even dream about being something that great! Holy cow! And here I am, a waiter, struggling with the evening rush.
I'll never forget that day. I had driven out from San Diego to Waxahachie to pick up my step-kids. At 9am.... pieces of the shuttle fell on their school and in many other places. It was a super clear, cold day. It was unusually bright out. I couldn't see a thing overhead but others did. We spent the night in a hotel in Plano, glued to the television
Wow, so sad! They knew something was wrong, but I bet (or at least I hope) they were gone before they could even fully process in their minds the level of danger they were in.
I lived in Spring Texas at the time. Watching tv and though it was a traffic accident on the highway close by - a very loud boom. A couple minutes later saw on TV the news and went outside - looked up to see the debris cloud and falling debris. Lots of video of the entry but not here -
This is still soo painful! Rich Husband was from Amarillo but graduated from Texas Tech University here in Lubbock Texas, Willie McCool graduated from Coronado High School here in Lubbock also. The track is named after Willie and there is a giant statue of him beside the lake at the Veterans Memorial. It was later stated the Columbia had started falling apart over Lubbock (west side of Texas) as several pieces were found mainly by farmers in fields before the disintegration at the east edge of Texas. Supposedly he’d told friends to watch for them as he’d be flying right over us. Rest In Peace to all!🙏🏻
Poor guy, I'm glad they grounded that bogus shuttle for good, even Musk can make a better return vehicle than that piece a crap shuttle which was only good for placing CIA spy satellites anyway
I know the point you're trying to make but from a different perspective, someone arguing on the premise of fate could use the same statement to say that the coincidences are just too big for it NOT to be solely their fault the disaster happened in the first place.
I remember it like yesterday. I lived 60 miles from Dallas and the explosion shook my house and woke me up. I watched this mission daily and was so so sad when they lost communication with them. I knew the explosion had to be the shuttle....
I lived about 40 miles north of Dallas. I remember being woken out of a sound sleep by that sound. It was like a trash truck dropping a dumpster onto the street from the top of a parking garage. I thought I had imagined it and drifted back to sleep. Woke up later and it was all over the news. That sound has stuck with me ever since.
I remember exactly where I was when this happened. I was working on a rifle range at Camp Pendleton, requalifying Marines when the call came up from the butts that the shuttle had exploded. At first, no one believed it but we were shocked when it turned out to be true. Fast forward a year later and I obtained a job working for Rockwell International, which is the company that built the shuttle. When that bird finally flew again, we were on pins and needles waiting for it to touch down safely. A roar went up in the plant when the wheels finally hit the runway. They use to keep a large pile of the used heat tiles that covered the shuttle, in one of the smaller parking lots. I kept telling myself that I should go get one of those tiles as a keepsake for my time at Rockwell. Sadly, I procrastinated and never got around to doing so. I kick myself to this day but I did manage to climb inside the Apollo 11 command module from the first flight to the moon. To bad we didn't have cell phones with cameras on them back then. That would have been a sweet picture. You can still go look at it today, if you visit the Smithsonian Institute. 😉👍
As a former CMQC with United Space Alliance, I was recording data/checking/buying off steps in the main Launch book (S0007, OTC) for this launch. I was on 3rd shift and turned the book over to1st shift just after the tire pressures were recorded on launch day (the LMG TP was at the minimum BTW). I was supposed to work the day of landing but was called off after the disaster. It didn't have to happen but Linda Hamm, Flight Director at JSC/Houston) failed/refused to follow flight/mission rules and condemned Columbia and her crew. The Shuttles did/do not have strobes on the exterior, especially the wingtips. The foam that struck the wing had internal voids formed during foaming operations and was filled with ice from condensation prior to launch. The water froze during tanking of LH2 and LOX/LO2 thereby increasing the weight of the chunk. The engineers knew of the foam strike and tried to get photos from other sources but Linda Hamm refused to allow it. Every Shuttle mission included 2 spacesuits and an EMU (Emergency Maneuvering Unit)m a compact version of the MMU demonstrated on a previous mission, just for this sort of occurrence.
@@virginiaviola5097 She was in training for the position but IMO wasn't ready to perform the duties nor handle the responsibilities. You can probably search her name and find the info.
@@CMQC124 thanks James, I did. It did occur to me after I asked that Google is my friend. Just got back here after reading the transcripts and the rather damning report. She’s the kind of woman who would have moved heaven and earth to find out the damage if it was her astronaut husband on board, but willing to throw the dice on the crew of the Columbia. History will not remember her kindly.
@@virginiaviola5097 So she's just like the officials with Challenger who were warned of the problem with the O-rings but didn't listen, they were too complacent and too eager to hurry up and get the mission done.
@@virginiaviola5097 Thank you. My comments are usually related to songs and the music on You Tube. I try hard to get whatever I state correct. I have always felt You Tube can be a great source of history.
It rained every day for about a month. Each day the mission was scrubbed at a cost of about $330,000. THEY wanted to get a school teacher into space for Ronald Reagan's inauguration. The day it blew up, my car barely started because of the cold! I saw it come down in pieces. I said, "it was because of the cold". Two years later they said the o-rings were not designed for below 54 degrees. They launched on a freezing day because of politics. Then they hid it for two years.
This video claims to be about the "Columbia", but the images all show "Endeavor" . Was it too much to model the Columbia? They both are shuttles, but had different hardware. The CGI is quite stunning in this video, it's just a shame the badges don't match.
*If we die we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life* . (Virgil "Gus" Grissom)
"I understand what you've done here, Q, but I think the lesson could have been learned without the loss of eighteen members of my crew." "If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's *not* for the timid!"
I performed research for NASA many years ago and learned some details about the Columbia shuttle tragedy. The Federal agency that runs our spy satellites offered to train their incredibly powerful cameras on the left wing of the shuttle while in orbit. NASA managers turned down their offer. If they had accepted their offer and discovered the wing damage, the crew on board the shuttle could have gone into an emergency mode and conserved food, power, water. NASA could have worked 24-7 to ready a shuttle for a rescue mission to fly to Columbia and transfer the astronauts to the rescue shuttle. They might have been able to rescue the astronauts. Perhaps, the Columbia astronauts could have performed an emergency space walk to inspect the left wing damage? Anyway, the real issue was the shuttle placed the astronauts right next to the fuel tanks and it cost the lives of 14 astronauts and two shuttles. We had the best rocket ever created, the Saturn 5, and the shuttle could have been designed to be the third stage of the Saturn 5 rocket. Now, NASA is trying to recreate the Saturn 5 again and the SLS puts the astronauts on top of the rocket so that if there is an emergency they can blast themselves from the rocket and have a chance to escape!
If the damaged to the shuttle wing was not discovered or determined until after the accident, why would anyone have offered to examine the wing while it was still in orbit?
NASA knew an iceball dislodged from the main fuel tank and hit the left wing of the shuttle at launch. The NASA engineers tried to simulate the “hit” on the left wing and determined there was minimal damage to the shuttle left wing. Obviously, their simulation was NOT correct. They then turned down the offer of the US spy satellites taking pictures of the shuttle left wing? Our spy satellites’ cameras are so powerful that on a clear day they can read the print of a book from 150 miles up in space!
@@11lucygoosey I watched the video of the ice, ice +foam, or foam alone at least 50 times. The mass of the object might be the highest with a ice + foam object, but the density of a pure iceball might cause the most damage? The key point is the NASA managers should have aggressively sought every source of assistance, i.e., US spy satellites, to determine just how much damage had been inflicted upon the left wing of the Columbia shuttle!
Yes it was a well produced Video, Apart from the fact that editor did not give anough time for people to read the script properly without stopping and starting it, it's not race to see who can get to end first, great idea lovely music shame about the editing.
And the lack of proof reading, the difference between professional and amateur, keep up the good work and you will get there. Constructive criticism should never be taken personally, it means people notice your efforts and want to help you improve your overall production, and a respectful acknowledgement of the seven astronauts who perished.
... and too many spelling mistakes. I am a slow reader, so I had to pause the vision to read it all properly. Don't give up though. This is good stuff!
I can't imagine what went through their minds and I don't believe that they were knocked out and unconscious. I feel like that is something said to lessen the trauma to the family and public.
@@mywifesboyfriend5558 Yes I know that is what the report says. When horrific plane crashes happen like Pan Am 103 or TWA 800 they say that the victims were knocked out/unconscious ect. I'm saying that I believe that is something told to the family of the victims and the public to put their mind at ease so they don't think they suffered. I hope they were unconscious. I couldn't imagine how awful it would be to be aware of what was happening.
The follow on report to the original investigation known as the Columbia Crew Survival Investigation Report is a second-by-second (more like 10ths of seconds) analysis of the break up. The crew cabin cracked due to forces. It took just a few seconds before the crew became incapacitated. A few seconds later the cabin begin to break up. Most of the crew body parts were recovered.
I couldnt sleep that night, Here in DFW. I heard it cracking up early in the morning. It had a horrable sound, like a few metal trash cans being repeatedly thrown against the grounds. The thing is, no neighbors in my neck of the woods have metal trash cans, they are plastic. I left my window open when I heard it cracking up. I was horrid. Rip Shuttle astronaughts!!!😟
My male cat brought a tiny kitten home with him that day. I named him Astro in honor of the astronauts. Living in Florida, there was nothing compared to watching a shuttle launch. I didn't see that shuttle launch though.
@@zentriceggofficial It seems there must be an automated tool that puts together video clips themed according to some input text. I saw multiple 'music videos' created this way for old songs. Or maybe authors of these videos act as such tool. Really annoying to watch.
4:15 William C. McCool was once a pilot for my Naval Air Unit VAQ-132 on Whidbey Island. They hang a picture of him with this astronaut flight suit and a picture of Columbia behind him.
I distinctly remember my dad calling me from my bedroom and me going into the living room and showing me something on the tv. And I said ‘what’s that daddy?’ And he said ‘That’s Columbia.’ My heart sank. My dad worked for USA (United space alliance) and his cell phone, my house phone, and my moms cell phone all started ringing at the same time. Living right next to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, it was like clockwork, seeing a shuttle go up and come back. You never think something like that will happen. Return to Flight was so important but also so scary. When we were watching Columbia disintegrate, my mom said ‘that’s the end of the shuttle program. This is what’s going to end it’ and she was right.
I remember the very day that a Apollo 1 ground training mission ended in disaster. At that time they were using pure oxygen in the cabin, when a small short happened and ignited everything in the cabin like a blow torch. All 3 members died in seconds. Things happen and brave people die when stepping out on a knifes edge, but we must remember that all those that do so benefited all of us with a much better life with all the new tech they were part of discovering. The day that Columbia broke apart on reentry was another very sad day for all of us, as was Challenger's liftoff. Others will brave space travel and push the limits of tech for the betterment of all of us. I hope that all the new brave souls that take on space flight return to us here on earth safe and sound.
There is actually a few seconds of video, very rarely shown, of Ed White inside Apollo 1 on fire with fire all around trying to get the hatch open. Then the fire's intensity swells to wall to wall hot white-orange, filling the hatch window view. Ed falls back disappearing into the fire, the capsule-filled oxygen blowtorch.
Even after Challenger, which I was in homeroom in Jr. High for, this one is the one that really broke my heart. Columbia was the first, and I was there when she first launched and brought this entire amazing era of space exploration to fruition. She was supposed to come home and be here with us today. RIP to her crew, and to all of those we lost in these ventures out of our atmosphere.
The general rule of thumb for on screen text is to read it three times before taking it off. Your text generally doesn't stay up long enough to be read comfortably without pausing the video. This is especially true for the longer blocks of text.
@@eatyourvegetables1449 kinda a jerk thing to say. I am dyslexic and i had no isses reading. It has to do with speed not the way it is presented. Which i will say 2 slides moved too fast regardless.
Yeah, I remember the news of this event like it was yesterday. It’s very sad. On a positive note(if I may) might welcome you all to go see the space shuttle that have been decommissioned. Ladies n gent’s it is amazing to be standing next to such magnificent technology structures. I did so recently, I went and saw the Space Shuttle Discovery, and it is nothing short of amazing.
I remember this day vividly too. I was in high school I was 15 years old and my brother walked up to me and said did you hear what just happened and told me the horrible news. It was devastating. They had a contest for all teachers to enter and go into space on that day. My eighth grade science teacher in Key West Florida enter that contest and so did many other of my science teachers in high school. I remember one of my teachers saying they could have been me. It’s so sad. Rest in peace all seven crewmembers.
@@matthewcetorelli8451 yes I was thinking that halfway through reading the comment. That's the challenger in 86 and that was destroyed during launch not re entry. I've forgotten the name of the school teacher.
I was doing ten days for a bar brawl in county jail when this happen. The guard came in and told us what happen and every inmate lowered their heads for a prayer.
The mision was parcially sucessful (the payload reached space) but the shuttle orbiter recovery failled due to heat shield failture. (Rest in peace 😿 crew that were there)
To those curious, according to NASA reports, the cabin was depressurized, causing the crew to become unconscious near instantaneously. It is highly unlikely they felt ANY pain. May these brave national heroes rest in peace.
I imagine them working the problem to the end. Astronauts don't seem built to give up . Brings us back together for a short period of pride in their actions and the skill of the engineers. Before going back to our small problems made large by others.
We were having a garage sale that morning. I lived in Lufkin Tx. I remember looking up and seeing these illuminated looking diamonds in the sky. They were followed by fire and smoke. I remember seeing it break up into multiple pieces. Then i felt a rumble that til this day ive never experienced again. My grandfather said “thats what it sounded like when we tested Patriot missiles” this day forever sticks with me. A part of history i wish we had never had to experience
My nephew was working as a firefighter in Oregon when this happened. He went down to Texas with firefighters from all over the country to comb the prairie for pieces of the shuttle. He found several himself.
It was the administration and NASA management that made the decision to launch. I saw an interview with Roger Boisjoly on PBS back in 1988. He advised NASA not to launch and said that it would be a be a violation of launch safety protocols. He was told (in his words) to take off his engineer hat and put on his management hat. He knew at that point that they were going to launch anyway, and a protest would be pointless. They were determined to not miss their launch window, teacher in space, etc... He was watching the launch with fellow engineers. He said that his manager leaned forward and said (paraphrasing) "It looks like we dodged a bullet" or something that effect and a few seconds later the center fuel tank exploded. They immediately knew the reason. He was horrified. Yes, he felt like he should have protested louder but knew it would not of made a difference. He carried that guilt with him for the rest of his life. And... YES, they tried to pin the blame on Morten-Thiokol for the disaster because they needed a scapegoat. It was in fact NASAs management reckless decision that caused the disaster not only killing seven people but destroying 4 billion dollars' worth of going to space hardware. It also delayed the program for three years. They always say it "stunned the nation" or some such BS. I was in my 20s then and watching the launch. All I remember is being really pissed. I knew that there was no emergency protocols for the people on board and that they sure to die or dead already. I have been a space junkie since I was a little kid and watched every Apollo launch and waited and waited for the shuttle which was a couple years behind schedule when it finally launched. The Shuttle program was poorly planned and funded. It never lived up to what NASA said it would be capable of. I remember early on one NASA engineer was quoted saying "We designed a Cadillac but ended up with a Chevy".
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If this disaster wouldn't have happened so we can't be able loose our brave daughter of India.... Kalpana Chalwa😢😢
I saw it disintegrate from my back porch in Dallas. One of worst feelings I’ve ever felt in my entire life. I can’t even begin to imagine what friends and family of the crew are feeling. God bless them all.
Yes me too from wichita falls that morning seen pieces fall from the sky, such sad day 😢
It was God's fault-everything according to His plan, right?
Did you know that was what it was when you saw it?
@@Twinjeremy I had a good idea but I wasn’t 100% sure until I went inside and saw it on TV.
@@jimscanoe go rage about Christ somewhere more appropriate you prick.
Sometimes folks forget just how dangerous all of this really is. These are heroes in my view, and we should hold their memory in the highest esteem.
There is a difference between the inherent, unavoidable dangers with strapping people to a 8 minutes continueos, somewhat controlled explosion followed by reentry at crazy temperatures and the negligence that caused the loss of both Challenger and Columbia… In both cases normalization of deviance caused NASA admin to ignore the warnings already given.
@@tusse67The danger arises from an array of factors, I agree.
Yes they are , as they believed in the support teams that sent them off , in questionable conditions. They are optimistic people who are also willing to gamble with their lives, for the projects they are affiliated with. Maybe, there is also a little touch of not wanting to know, what they themselves cannot fix. A little gambler attitude with a lot of hope, it will turn out well. Truly, superior human beings. We should never forget them......
One heat shield?
Not me. My first experience with this kind of thing was at 10 years old watching the Challenger explode on TV in my 4th grade classroom. 🤦♀️ Our poor teacher was just horrified! 💔
Having been alive to witness both complete shuttle failures, Challenger in 1986 & Columbia in 2003, I have to say Columbia hits a lot harder since NASA was already clearly aware of this issue and did nothing about it. Then to find out that the foam that caused the initial damage was completely unnecessary really makes your heart go out to those who lost their lives in this incident as well as their family & friends.
NASA was also aware of the risk of frigid overnight temperatures affecting the O-ring seals in the solid rocket booster joints on Challenger. They decided to proceed with the launch anyway to avoid the embarrassment of delaying yet another launch, with disastrous results.
I recommend reading up on the late engineer Allan MacDonald who refused to sign off on the launch of Challenger. He famously said "If anything happens to this launch, I wouldn't want to be the person that has to stand in front of a board of inquiry to explain why we launched."
@@Codgerism very true, maybe it was just the fact that I was a 6 year old kid when Challenger happened that I feel that Columbia just hit me a little more. Maybe it was just that it happened a second time in my lifetime. Don't get me wrong though I am not trying to discount the tragedy of Challenger at all.
They knew about it but what was the best decision to inform the crew? Tell them "Houston here, you have a problem" or just not let them know at all? The final decision was that it was best to not let them know they were going to die. If they did, they'd stay in space and run out of oxygen and other recourses.
@@abrahamg3354 except they could have easily saved the crew of Columbia had NASA not declined imaging of the damaged wing… They already had another shuttle launching scheduled, so NASA could have made the decision to have the space shuttles meet in orbit and then they would have transferred the Columbia crew over to the shuttle that was safer for reentry… NASA said so themselves that they had until day 7 to figure out about the damaged wing to be able to save the crew but NASA denied the imaging of the left wing to find the damage before attempting reentry so they never sent the other shuttle for a rescue mission... So NASA not being able to do anything to help the crew is a lie. They CHOSE not to help the crew and risk their lives for no reason.
They were clearly aware of the O Ring Problems too. The guy warned them up until launch. They ignored it. The Challenger exploded. I too witnessed both. I was 5 for Challenger. I remember that day too. Probably better then I do Columbia. Strange.
When discussing John Glenn's ride on the first Atlas-Mercury launch, one of the Mercury astronauts explained that if Glenn had died in a launch failure, the remaining six would have all gone to the funeral, then the next morning stood in line to get the next launch. It was just a unique mindset explorers have. Godspeed to all who've given their lives for space exploration.
They were all test pilots and faced death constantly. They signed up for it.
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Classic adrenaline junkies.
Glenn was on the third Mercury mission, not the first. Alan Shepard, followed by Grissom were first and second. Glenn was the first to orbit, the others had sub-orbital missions.
@@gevansmd1 true, but Glenn’s mission was the first to use the Atlas booster, which made it the first Mercury-Atlas mission, and a hell of a lot more dangerous, given past experience with the Atlas.
My mom was in the beginning stages of dementia back then, but when I got home and told her about the shuttle break up, she still had enough "wherewith all" that she knew this was serious business and that some beautiful people had just lost their lives! I sat down at the kitchen table and we both wept awhile while at the same time uttering the words Not again lord! NOT again!!! No, I will likely never forget that day!!!
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I worked at the Department of Defense Manned Spaceflight Support Office (DDMS) during the Columbia tradegy. Essentially we were in charge of astronaut rescue. I briefed the Columbia crew at KSC about two weeks before the flight during the dry run (TCDT). They all seemed very excited and positive. A honor to have met them.
Sure you were and you just happened to watch this video lmfao.
@@chucks_88 Yep. Just saw it. Stationed at Patrick AFB from 1999-2003 for about 18 launches. Was the deployed commander for the rescue forces that were postured at Ramstein AB in Germany for the Columbia launch. Also was the DoD liaison to NASA at Barksdale AFB for two weeks during debris recovery and shipment. This video probably was put on my feed because I watched similar videos before. Just happened to be there. That's all.
Good for you.
@@chucks_88 what the fuck is your problem?
@@wes326 Why even respond that that neomaxizoomdweebie?
I was in Antarctica when Columbia broke up. I was in the TV room with many other people, and when the disaster unfolded, there was a stunned silence which was a reminder of the Challenger disaster. May they all, both the crew of Challenger and Columbia, Rest In Paradise.
Rip
@@veronicadaugherty3760 Yes
shit ,,, i thought you were gonna say a Norwegian helicopter turned up shooting at a German shepherd... very disappointing ron
@@johnwhorfin5150 Troll.
@@Theywaswrong parrot
I’ll never forget when and where I was when I heard we lost the Columbia. Absolutely heartbreaking.
I remember EXACTLY where I was standing for both Challenger AND Columbia. I love space and NASA. I grew up building models of the space shuttle. I flew a model rocket of the Shuttle, I remember getting orange paint all over everything finishing the external tank. I lost a booster and had to display the model half hidden behind my Saturn rocket.
But I have never been so relieved about anything having to do with manned space exploration as I was when the last shuttle landed and everyone was still alive.
My anxiety level went up with every launch.
I don't think I ever missed a launch on TV. I saw about half the landings.
But I seriously considered leaving the TV off for the last 5 or 6 missions.
I'm glad that period of space exploration is over.
Me too. For some reason Columbia was my favourite space shuttle.
@@azamchaudhri don't bet on horses my friend...
@@christopherleveck6835 . no luckily I'm not a betting man 🙂
yeah I'm sure that you were just shattered by it...curled up in a ball for weeks...
RIP Columbia and Challenger. You will never be forgotten! 🇺🇸
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It's ok- they're probably just fine, and still involved in the production of your fake TV screen reality
@@ToranosukeEdo it actually real
@@ToranosukeEdo idiot
I remember watching the Challenger disaster live in class. It was horrifying, especially considering that it didn’t have to happen- and the fact that the crew might have been alive for a significant portion of the freefall made it even worse.
I saw the Columbia disaster as well, live on tv. After reading the final report, I take cold comfort in knowing that the crew was rendered unconscious before they were blasted apart by the insane forces their bodies were exposed to.
They went as human beings, and they returned as stars. RIP the 7 crew members.
Amen !
No they didn't they where cursing and screaming in anguish at their completely avoidable predicament, they suffered inside that intact crew compartment, they suffered immensely.
@UCMIl1td3mzadKQpjyfN9oCw hey dumbfuck, she wasn’t being literal.
@@Veldtian1 Columbia broke up while it was still flying at *mach 12* and over 200,000 feet. There might have been a few seconds of terror when the Shuttle was out of control, but once the cabin came apart, death would have instantaneous. They didn't feel anything.
@@ct6502-c7w, at that speed any loss of stability leads to immediate destruction because of immensely huge G loads. Destruction is as fast as a detonation. So the entire crew must have been dead or unconscious a fraction of a second after the vehicle has lost its aerodynamic stability.
A part of Columbia was recovered on our property in Louisiana, such a tragic loss… still heartbreaking to think about….
Part of the shuttle came down in my yard in Western Louisiana on the border of Texas. We reported it and government officials picked it up. It was a very upsetting and disturbing thing to know that the parts in my yard were just recently the shuttle, very sad.
You should of kept it and sold it on the black market.
You did the right thing contacting the government. That was a sad time and the families and the public wanted answers.
You shouldn't have sold it to the government
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@@Emotionless68 why not? NASA needed all the data they could get in order to determine the failure so they could protect and save more lives in the future. The commenter did the right thing.
Seeing that foam come off and hit the wing is spine-chilling. Anything coming off of a spacecraft during launch or flight is always a bad sign. What’s even more spine-chilling is thinking about what the astronauts went through, what they saw on their end…
their few moments of life left..... can't imagine how they felt. All because of a unnecessary, crappy design
@@mayhulk7514 they probably died quickly (I hope).
Timing?
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Somebody really needs to proofread the text and consider how long it takes to read it before it it fades to more unedited text.
Very frustrating to constantly go back, and pause because it fades away so quickly.
May I suggest to you the... (Evelyn Woodhead speed reading course).
@Michael Scott , If you have vision problems, it exacerbates the problem.
Don't feel bad, there's quite a few comments on this video concerning that issue. We're not alone.
Proofreading will also catch silly spelling mistakes - March instead of Mach.
Right? I'm sure the creator doesn't suffer this problem but I'm watching it whilst a little bit baked from a spliff. It's moving too goddamn fast for my addled brain!
After the Challenger loss I always wondered why there wasn't some kind of fuselage inspection once in orbit. I know the Challenger and Columbia were lost due to two completely separate failures. But the two most dangerous parts of space travel are the moments between main engine start to main engine cut off (MICO) and re-entering the atmosphere. Once in orbit most failures can be dealt with. Look at Apollo 13, they were on the way to the moon when they had an explosion. They managed to go around the moon and return safe. And that was in 1970. It wasn't until after the Columbia that they started doing heat tile inspections in orbit. They should have started that in the 1980's! If they noticed a heat shield missing from the Columbia they could have possibly figured out a way to fix it or rendezvous with the space station or ask the Russians for an emergency rescue mission. The Columbia was doomed before it left the atmosphere.
This is honestly a really great idea. And it’s to have a recovery spaceship with however many seats are needed from the doomed spacecraft including 2 pilots. Just have the recovery space ship sitting at some station, ready. When the crew is in orbit and their craft is reported as doomed, the recovery craft can go to space and save them.
there was
@@madbrit5053 Well obviously it wasn’t a very useful one to the Columbia, so maybe the main commenter has a point. There should be a new recovery craft. One that operates like Elon Musks Tesla functions. Not in the charging aspect cause that’s wishful thinking. In the aspect that every craft that goes into space could have a computer that is connected to the outgoing spacecraft. The communications should speak to each other, so if anything goes wrong it can signal to the recovery spacecraft and already get sent off to its coordinated craft in distress. A computer so good that it would know before communications below.
@@EmmaGrizzlyRose2.0 A recovery craft would be pointless. In 90% of situation it would be a second vehicle of the same design so the same problem on launch could occur, this would ground most craft. As pointed out the most dangerous part of space flight is between main engine start and main engine cut off.
There is no recovery in space you either leave earth with everything you need to get back or you die. You can jury rig or repurpose much of your equipment but there is no help up there. The speed involved prevent anything from matching you in a timely fashion.
As for repairs while in space throw that out the window as well, while there is no weight at orbital speeds if there is a problem with your reentry vehicle you are dead, this was not cracked tiles that need replacing this was damage to the leading edge. People have come up with plans that may have saved the crew but I don't think a single one would have worked.
There was a request for an inspection, to the Air Force, which had a telescope capable of it. The inspection was nixed by a senior person at Nasa for bureaucratic reasons.
I remember watching this in high school. Ironically, with the same teacher who I had class with when 9/11 happened. She was a great teacher and new how to talk us through these tragic events and inspire understanding over fear.
You know, this happened on a Saturday morning. Were you in detention or something? Lol
@@zachmoore6620 people have weekend school 2 you know?
@@TheOriginalSide1 doubt it
@@zachmoore6620 oh and also time zones
@@TheOriginalSide1 Crash happened 9am central time. The latest time zone at that moment would be 2am SST Saturday I believe. So unless he had school at 2am on a Saturday then I think you're sh*t out of explanations. Idk why you feel compelled to create impossible solutions to this. The OP is obviously being dramatic or making it up
Rick Husband was a family friend and the best man at my aunt's wedding. RIP
did he ever get ahold of you after his fake death. was he one of the teachers who had a twin when confronted?
@@tiogacaltelcom I’m honestly asking bc I haven’t heard this. Is this what some people say?
@@idontknowmuch3441 I saw the interviews on the dark web about 4 months after the "tragedy" . very few people knew about that part of the web years ago. then I followed up with names and teaching positions and it was all true. some said they were the twin, others just denied the accusations. I think NASA need to cancel that part of their agenda. do you realize that Appollo astronaut, Aldrin, has said on TV recently that we did not land on the moon.? amazing. you can prabably find that.
@@tiogacaltelcom interesting stuff. I did some research tho and buzz aldrin never denied the moon landing
@@idontknowmuch3441 yes he did..he was at a kindergarden school and was asked by a child if he had really landed..Aldrin said NO. we never did. so look it up using schools, etc. let me know if you find it.
I remember the very first flight to the moon and how it was such a big deal. I loved watching it and I was at school that day.
I have been a huge fan of our space flights, studies etc ever since and when we all witnessed these two tragedies how shockingly sad it was. You felt like you witnessed your very own family members die. It sucked the joy right out of you and replaced it with the worst loss a person can have. My heart almost failed me and I mourned the loss with our Nation and our Astronauts families. God rest their souls. Such wisdom and shivery they possessed.
The Challenger was 1986. The designs for the o ring area was redesigned later for added safety because of ice danger. My father was born in 1935 he died in 2016 just shy of being 81. He outlived my mother ten years seven months. I greatly miss both of them, I was extremely close to both. I dedicated my life in taking care of them. I swore an oath to the Pentagon to do so. I was one of only 5 people in the whole of the USAF to do so. I still cry daily to this day missing them.
You are incredible
Sorry I don’t understand, you took an oath to look after your parents?
I’m a 69yo USAF VETERAN and retired Corporate Pilot. You are an amazing person. Just from what you wrote here had me tearing up. Stay strong and maybe we will meet someday in heaven. God Bless.
I will say somehow these videos never seem morbid or come off as for profit in the loss of life. It actually seems to humanize the tragedy and allow us a more in depth view of something we would never have the option to gain this kind of information about. I find these actually take the tragedy aspect out of these events and bring us closer to the people inside these moments! Unfortunately, they are not moments we wish to experience or witness...
1. Please hire a new text editor, and have them re-read all of your text entries. You will find about a dozen mistakes. Valiant effort. 2. Hire a new graphics editor - showing an astronaut on the moon during a shuttle flight? Showing a Russian nuclear control room? Showing the Endeavor during a presentation on the Columbia?
Simple quick transitons too. Dissolves are all you need. Good video over all though. The edits by Mr. Watson and myself are just to help make it better.
And leave the words up long enough to read them. I had to stop the video to read what happened.
@@BertrandNelson-Paris it's chernobyl and u know it.
I just can’t ever help but imagine the last things on their minds while this was happening. Did they know they were going to die? It’s just so hard to process how these incredible human beings with incredibly vast knowledge can just be gone in an instant.
I have had the same feeling. But I remind myself that astronauts are risk takers. There is no other way to get past the reality of strapping themselves to a machine that is going to take them from 0 to 17,500 in 8 minutes. For me, I feel we honor all of their lives by continuing the explore.
They probably knew something was wrong when reentry started. They probably had sensors saying the left wing was too hot. But there was nothing they could do. Thank God their death was fast after it started to break up. I like to think they knew, but when it happened, they didn't feel a thing.
@@livetotell100 Yeah. There were sensors showing issues but there were issues in trying to understand what the sensors were actually showing. There was a point on the ground that they just thought there was a sensor malfunction problem.
What really saddens me is that there was a ghost of Challenger in this disaster. There had been prior foam strikes yet they did little or nothing to address the problem. Was there ever consideration of having all of the tank insulation contained within the tank rather than affixed to the exterior of the tank? As with Challenger, NASA knew there were issues but did nothing.
they did not die. it was a fake. read reply above
@@livetotell100 they did not die. a red flag death. some claimed they were twins when confronted. others were teachers in eastern schools. you can research is maybe, but don't use google
How could anybody take this slapped together doco seriously. What a total disprect to the mission specialist. She was a brilliant lady and you couldn't get her name right. Her name was not David Kalpana Chawla. This video is littered with typos and is a disgrace to the memory of the Columbia crew.
I completely agree what a hack job.
Yeah the spelling throughout had errors...smh
"accent" for "ascent" for one.
Y’all too sensitive.
Probably put together by another person outside of our country trying to educate us about our own history.happens all the time.
RIP to all those who have braved to go above and beyond and challenge the stars, you will never be forgotten 🙏 ❤
What's the point of going to space?? To pollute it..look for solutions to save our earth!!!
Capt. David Brown was not just a Navy Captain. He was a Medical doctor and USN Flight Surgeon. He was our flight Surgeon at NAS Adak Alaska and a good friend.
May I ask you an indelicate question ? Are astronauts given a cyanide tablet for no hope situations ?
@@michaelarchangel1163 I have never heard that but then I am not an astronaut. The ones I know are not the type of people that would give up and use something like that.
@@macworks9389 I asked because I only recently learned that death is instantaneous when a submarine implodes, and because burning caused many people to jump when the twin towers were on fire. There's nothing cowardly about it, in my opinion.
@@michaelarchangel1163 I didn't make a judgement about people doing that in other situations nor did I call anyone a coward. What I can tell you is those of us who do dangerous things such as test fly aircraft, fly off of aircraft carriers, serve in submarines, or go into space are not normally the type of people that resign themselves to failure in any circumstance. May I commend you to the Apollo 13 story.
Yikes... he delivered my sister in 1983 Adak I was 12. Small world
Love the presentation. However... if you can edit the video, you might consider correcting all the misspellings and adding spaces where they are missing. Still... loved it!!
Oh, and slow down the narrative. Geez Louise! Who can read that fast? Ha.
@@b-dub6865 exactly!
You mean the orbiter wasn't traveling at a speed of March 2.46?
@@b-dub6865 I know right my eyes were moving but I couldn’t process it
Great job as usual! I remember The Challenger and The Columbia. Those poor souls. I have tears in my eyes thinking about it. The loss to the families and the space program! God bless them all!
Thank you!
I remember when this happened. RIP all the crew members and god bless them. This year 2023 will mark 20 years since this happend.
Nearly 20 years on this is still very hard to watch. Columbia was my favourite of the Space Shuttles ever since the first launch. It’s so sad to see them just a museum piece now. To those brave seven, forever rest in peace.
Great book called "Bringing Columbia Home" Great read and tells the story of those who gave all and others who did the amazing job finding all the Astronauts for the family's and those who found the pieces of Columbia and returning her to the Cape.
Thank you for honoring this crew ❤ I remember when this happened and how heartbroken I felt. 💔 excellent work sharing this tragic story🌹 thank you and well wishes to you and to all who read this🌹💗
why’d you put emojis so shitty and fucked noob edit it
This is without a doubt the saddest presentation I've ever watched on TechnoBlog. God bless the astronauts.
It’s a dangerous job, these people are also hero’s for risking their lives to get data for scientists to examine, such a sad day for the space community.
WHAT KILLED MY HEART WAS THAT I LOVED THE INDIAN ASTRONAUT 💔 WHEN I KNEW IN SCHOOL THAT SHE DIED MY HEART BROKE .SHE HAD A SOUL OF AND ANGEL ..
RIP 🙏
CHAWLA WE WILL NEVER FORGET YOU.
RIP TO ALL OF THEM
she went back to teaching in some eastern college. it was a fake death. they needed some way to stop the project. reaseach not with google. so many things have been removed from the time line.
@@tiogacaltelcom and I suppose that was a fake shaking of my house as they broke up overhead and fake pieces of shuttle found all over East Texas. Get a life.
@@bobbybaucom4489 no, the launch was real
Tears I watched it on television the day it happened. Prayers for the families 🙏🏽🙏🏽
I was home sick from the couch i remember watching. Just numbing to my mind it was. Shocking it was.
The animation shows the Shuttle Endeavor. I was watching the reentry of Columbia live. When I saw two contrails I became concerned. When I saw more contrials I knew this was very bad.
In memory of the heroes, Siwe are only part of a whole, but heroes one day when we travel further into space, those who made this possible will be remembered. Greetings from Germany, Live long and prosper
While residing in north Dallas, I was standing in the doorway and heard a "BOOM" sound and then my doorway and house made a sound. (when homes settle crack noise) I went into my backyard and saw two white streams going across the sky at a faster speed. Not like when planes leave white marks. I could see something in front of one of the large white streams. Then my neighbors were coming out too because they too heard it and felt their homes make a 'settling' sound. My children were in Douglas, Texas (next to Nacogdoches) visiting their Mimi. They called me and said they were using "flags to mark the metal parts of the shuttle". My small children were 'excited' to help out saying it felt like an Easter Egg hunt. They said that some police and men came to Mimi's house and told them not to touch any of the metal as it could have chemicals on it and could be harmful. Their Mimi took a few pictures of the flagged parts of the Space Shuttle. When I saw the pictures? It was so surreal and realized the lives lost associated with the parts found on Mimi's property and my children helping in their own ways but not fully recognizing what had happened at the time.
Pedazo video 👍👍👍
I remember Challenger. I was sick that day so I watched the launch from home. There was so much confusion. No one knew what to say. The cameras kept focusing on the small part with the parachutes thinking that the astronauts might have been saved.
This is a total disgrace to the lives lost, misspelled words, wrong shuttle images...it ought to be removed from RUclips.
Exactly, shows a Saturn V briefly at launch then Endeavor during the anaimation pure click bait,highly polished crap !
Agreed.
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Columbia was the very first space shuttle, piloted by John Young and Robert Crippen. I vividly remember the magic of watching live video feeds from it on that maiden voyage while in high school. I stayed glued to the TV nearly 24 hours a day during that time. When the Columbia was finally lost, it felt like losing an old friend or family member. I was crushed!
Yes I watched it when I was in school to, nobody did in my class. Still nobody cares for more then just their boring lives. Thank god for the internet.
The Enterprise was the first Space Shuttle.
@@MrChopsticktech , Google is your friend. You should make use of it!
@@twincams350 as should you my friend. Without Enterprise the shuttle program could not proceed. P.S. Google is not anybody’s friend.
@@sonnyburnett8725 , The Columbia was the shuttle used in STS-1, the very first shuttle mission into space. The Enterprise never reached space. It was just a test platform. If you want to argue that Enterprise was "first" on the grounds that without its existence the shuttle program couldn't proceed, then you also could argue that the first drawing on the back of a napkin constituted the "first" space shuttle because without that drawing, the shuttle program probably wouldn't have started. The internet is full of people just looking to start an argument over trivial details... SMH
You could have at least had the name Columbia on the shuttle in this video instead of Endeavour! Attention to detail folks!
So right on that one! Not to mention most of the footage is recycled space shuttle footage from later missions, not including Columbia at all.
Heartily agreed......smh
With a little bit of favor on the OP's side, the simulator he used has a space shuttle but only one livery is available to use being the Endeavor to my knowledge. I don't think he had a choice.
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yeah i spotted that one as well
My mum saw it enxplode into pieces because her friend was one of the astronauts family member and they watched from our porch because our house is close to nasa and when it came down it exploded and her friend fell to her knees crying saying my nephew was there….save the lord.
What a quick cut frequency for this documentation. I don´t think that half of the population of the USA can read as quick as the text changes here.
How about it. I had to keep pausing it.
I remember this day. They announced it over the PA at work and we all went home to watch it over and over again on TV. Sad sad day.
It was a Sunday morning, I was in DFW. The fall in pieces event occurs over Texas...
My boyfriend in the 80’s worked for Morton Thiokol in Utah on the Shuttle Booster 🚀 🧨 Rockets ORings after the Challenger Disaster in 1986...May the Crews of Both Shuttles RIP with God in Heaven among the Stars ⭐️ ✨ 💫
You liar!
Different event than this one.
@@chrisperell4590 And you would know this How ?
I remember thinking we arrived at the beginning of a new space age era with the shuttle program. The first launch and return was an incredible moment.
Then Obama came along and scraped the shuttle program
As I have been preaching and will never stop although I realize that the chances of My success is nearly nothing I will say this again totally serious and you can take this anyway you want to look at it when in the hell are you people who believe NASA was real I got to learn how to stop trusting that God damn Nazis..... NASA as it is I'll say again is your dog and pony show girls and boys to draw your attention to a drama of what you're seeing of sadness cereal grief victory agony defeat and success that is a Broadway play only well the real space program is doing things that I wouldn't even want to begin to imagine that's just how serious and at what level the line is really at but look at what you people call I always never went to the moon that's impossible because there's a bad all about in the way that's part of a script in a Broadway play not reality reality is way beyond that danger that's all the problems that have been presented to you all these years we're already solved and we've headed in other words directions of greater interest Barbie on your imagination while you're stuck here and this shuttle story that looks very real and really was actually used for actual helping production important who the hell knows is really going on but it's not anymore real ass the fact that trains and planes and trucks are used for transportation in the Publix commercial world whereas your wildest sci-fi guests is going on on places like the moon where they've been mining helium 3 for 20 years is the latest rumor now that as it gets to the plot thickens is becoming even hard for me to believe but the horror here is the possibility that it is real the stories that we don't actually know anything about like the fact that there was a military operation going on on the moon for 5 years before the NASA public dog and pony show arrived on the moon that's easily debunked purposely orchestrated so it can be..
. If I sound rude aggressive sarcastic and downright attacking you that's exactly what I feel I don't expect you to understand all my hates dislikes and frustration and it's not fair to take it out on you but you seem to be the handiest punching bag at the moment that's just how drought and drained..as was Dr. Leonard H. "Bones" McCoy ... What's really going on is portrayed every day in the Sci-Fi Plex starting back as far as the first Star Trek the movie when bones came aboard the new and improved Enterprise and said after he looked around and said "engineers they just love to change things".... I suppose I shouldn't take it out in the public as I can see your side of it as you can't possibly understand that what's really going on inside our space program it's not exactly the wild technology that's in the movies but the stats are the personal ramifications of real people in real situations it's more far advanced than it has ever been portrayed in sci-fi as there's way more behind the curtains and just some common rockets going here and going there.... As I have said it before when the hell is a goddamn public going to learn to stop trusting a goddamn Nazis. And the irony here is the fact that you don't have a f****** clue what I just said and I'm literally talking about that God damn Nazis who run this country run NASA and always have sense of Operation paperclip with you have been let you believe never happened but until someone in the millennial age as a group of miles and step forward as your spokesman and tell you what I'm saying we are all totally f***** you're f***** you're f*** forever and you'll never become unfucked as a God damn Nazis out here been here since 1949 and we're invented by the Queen of England who started world war II and invented Hitler as you just don't get it you don't see the big picture because it's not praise or dignified or notified that it is what it's all about God damn it it's the f****** Illuminati royal family oh yeah yeah now I'm a bad s*** crazy conspiracies aren't I every time anyone tries to come forward and I will never stop you can shoot me down before I'll stop but it's way more than money it's way more than popularity it's a thing that commoners like us cannot even fathom because it's a simple as f****** power not just agreed but the pleasure of being the one who calls the shots I don't understand how it goes to the Head and controls the minds of the elite the body that's as stupid and dumb f*** as he can be that's the biggest percentage of the whole f****** thing it's a stupid power Trip people get on and I can see it yeah the money is nice and comes in handy but at this point in my life if I had a big pile of money I'd blow it instantly on stupid s*** just to try and see if it'll work well guess what that's what you do every day for for really actually nothing better to do serious that's how life becomes for the next level up of society as we would go awesome and all and wow if we were taking a walk through their toy shops the types of heaven knows what has just been said is far beyond Gene rod and Marion George Lucas ever thought of.... As for real no s*** yours truly had a little cleanup job and dancing both circle perfectly around the one ton over in thick 316 I think it was stainless but it was an hour and a stainless that just so happened to be a pulse jet detonation after burner type Venturi that was being implied to the next generation space planes of the Aurora program that wasn't just a particular airplane but a series of designs of airplane that fly in the weightless airless vacuum of space and if you thinking I'm talking Jules Burns and Buck Rogers yes that's what I'm talking about and so now you probably want to know how that's possible and are going to proclaim that I'm bat s*** crazy because that's totally impossible right.
@@crasherxtreme the shuttle program was put on notice to end by President Bush in 2004. The last flight was in 2011 on President Obama's watch. Some of the reasons were cost, slow turnaround, few customers, 2 wars, etc. I get it. You don't like President Obama which is fine but no, it want because of him the program ended. That program needed to end anyway. It did what it needed to do. Got more than just a few test pilots into space, integral part in the construction of the ISS, Hubble Satellite deployment among many other things but it's use is no longer needed as we can see.
Their climb into orbit with the music is powerful. Knowing they will never make it back. RIP Columbia crew.
Feedback . . .
* The thumbnail was clickbait -- no breaking up of the shuttle was seen during the entirety of the video
* The shuttle depicted was _Endeavor_ , not _Columbia_ -- you could have at least included a bit of an apology in the text; any reasonable reason you gave would have made the error/shortcoming understandable
* The fancy wipes were distracting, and the "spinning" effect was as well
* Much of the text blew by just a little too fast for me to read them in their entirety (and I'm not a bad reader), I had to resort to pausing each time
* At least five typos in the text, and I wasn't really looking for them until after the first two
Overall, false advertising, a lack of attention to detail, and too much unnecessary "chrome". However the music was nice and I didn't notice any factual errors.
(Incidentally I was on my apartment balcony in Austin, Texas -- about 200 miles to the south -- when the whole neighborhood shook from a massive sonic boom. A friend called shortly after and told me about the disaster.)
If this is Shuttle Columbia, why is it marked Endeavour?
Because it's not Columbia... Columbia is the only shuttle that has a black radar on the rudder. It's a poor video
Because this video is a lousy piece of work.
All the typos should be an indication….
@@nickpensiripun5265 it isn’t that good
@@nickpensiripun5265 Agree, it's shoddy clickbait and full of errors.
Love the earth spinning backwards at 7:43
Medical doctors, naval officers, AND astronauts all in one resume 😮
I couldn’t even dream about being something that great! Holy cow!
And here I am, a waiter, struggling with the evening rush.
I'll never forget that day. I had driven out from San Diego to Waxahachie to pick up my step-kids. At 9am.... pieces of the shuttle fell on their school and in many other places. It was a super clear, cold day. It was unusually bright out. I couldn't see a thing overhead but others did. We spent the night in a hotel in Plano, glued to the television
The amount of misspellings are as staggering as the disaster itself.
Wow, so sad! They knew something was wrong, but I bet (or at least I hope) they were gone before they could even fully process in their minds the level of danger they were in.
I lived in Spring Texas at the time. Watching tv and though it was a traffic accident on the highway close by - a very loud boom. A couple minutes later saw on TV the news and went outside - looked up to see the debris cloud and falling debris.
Lots of video of the entry but not here -
This is still soo painful! Rich Husband was from Amarillo but graduated from Texas Tech University here in Lubbock Texas, Willie McCool graduated from Coronado High School here in Lubbock also. The track is named after Willie and there is a giant statue of him beside the lake at the Veterans Memorial. It was later stated the Columbia had started falling apart over Lubbock (west side of Texas) as several pieces were found mainly by farmers in fields before the disintegration at the east edge of Texas. Supposedly he’d told friends to watch for them as he’d be flying right over us. Rest In Peace to all!🙏🏻
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Poor guy, I'm glad they grounded that bogus shuttle for good, even Musk can make a better return vehicle than that piece a crap shuttle which was only good for placing CIA spy satellites anyway
Well, flying over usually means. you are in one piece.....and not in small fragments......He did not anticipate that. No one did.
I know the point you're trying to make but from a different perspective, someone arguing on the premise of fate could use the same statement to say that the coincidences are just too big for it NOT to be solely their fault the disaster happened in the first place.
@@matthewcetorelli8451 It was just a totally sad day no matter what perspective you see it from in my opinion. May they all Rest In Peace.
I remember it like yesterday. I lived 60 miles from Dallas and the explosion shook my house and woke me up. I watched this mission daily and was so so sad when they lost communication with them. I knew the explosion had to be the shuttle....
I lived about 40 miles north of Dallas. I remember being woken out of a sound sleep by that sound. It was like a trash truck dropping a dumpster onto the street from the top of a parking garage. I thought I had imagined it and drifted back to sleep. Woke up later and it was all over the news. That sound has stuck with me ever since.
Loved the video. Reading your captions hurt my brain though, yall need to proofread
I remember exactly where I was when this happened. I was working on a rifle range at Camp Pendleton, requalifying Marines when the call came up from the butts that the shuttle had exploded. At first, no one believed it but we were shocked when it turned out to be true. Fast forward a year later and I obtained a job working for Rockwell International, which is the company that built the shuttle. When that bird finally flew again, we were on pins and needles waiting for it to touch down safely. A roar went up in the plant when the wheels finally hit the runway.
They use to keep a large pile of the used heat tiles that covered the shuttle, in one of the smaller parking lots. I kept telling myself that I should go get one of those tiles as a keepsake for my time at Rockwell. Sadly, I procrastinated and never got around to doing so. I kick myself to this day but I did manage to climb inside the Apollo 11 command module from the first flight to the moon. To bad we didn't have cell phones with cameras on them back then. That would have been a sweet picture. You can still go look at it today, if you visit the Smithsonian Institute. 😉👍
Thank you for your service Sir.
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Thank you, the pleasure was mine, good sir. 🙂
As a former CMQC with United Space Alliance, I was recording data/checking/buying off steps in the main Launch book (S0007, OTC) for this launch. I was on 3rd shift and turned the book over to1st shift just after the tire pressures were recorded on launch day (the LMG TP was at the minimum BTW). I was supposed to work the day of landing but was called off after the disaster. It didn't have to happen but Linda Hamm, Flight Director at JSC/Houston) failed/refused to follow flight/mission rules and condemned Columbia and her crew. The Shuttles did/do not have strobes on the exterior, especially the wingtips.
The foam that struck the wing had internal voids formed during foaming operations and was filled with ice from condensation prior to launch. The water froze during tanking of LH2 and LOX/LO2 thereby increasing the weight of the chunk. The engineers knew of the foam strike and tried to get photos from other sources but Linda Hamm refused to allow it. Every Shuttle mission included 2 spacesuits and an EMU (Emergency Maneuvering Unit)m a compact version of the MMU demonstrated on a previous mission, just for this sort of occurrence.
What was Linda Hamm’s background?
@@virginiaviola5097 She was in training for the position but IMO wasn't ready to perform the duties nor handle the responsibilities. You can probably search her name and find the info.
@@CMQC124 thanks James, I did. It did occur to me after I asked that Google is my friend. Just got back here after reading the transcripts and the rather damning report. She’s the kind of woman who would have moved heaven and earth to find out the damage if it was her astronaut husband on board, but willing to throw the dice on the crew of the Columbia. History will not remember her kindly.
@@virginiaviola5097 So she's just like the officials with Challenger who were warned of the problem with the O-rings but didn't listen, they were too complacent and too eager to hurry up and get the mission done.
@@virginiaviola5097 Thank you. My comments are usually related to songs and the music on You Tube. I try hard to get whatever I state correct. I have always felt You Tube can be a great source of history.
Fun fact: from the time the piece broke off until the shuttle flew into it the shuttle it’s speed increased by 500 mph.
It rained every day for about a month. Each day the mission was scrubbed at a cost of about $330,000. THEY wanted to get a school teacher into space for Ronald Reagan's inauguration. The day it blew up, my car barely started because of the cold! I saw it come down in pieces. I said, "it was because of the cold". Two years later they said the o-rings were not designed for below 54 degrees. They launched on a freezing day because of politics. Then they hid it for two years.
Kengaroo - you’re referring to the Challenger tragedy of 1986. This is about the Columbia disaster upon reentry.
This video claims to be about the "Columbia", but the images all show "Endeavor" . Was it too much to model the Columbia? They both are shuttles, but had different hardware. The CGI is quite stunning in this video, it's just a shame the badges don't match.
*If we die we want people to accept it. We are in a risky business, and we hope that if anything happens to us, it will not delay the program. The conquest of space is worth the risk of life* .
(Virgil "Gus" Grissom)
Two weeks before the fire.
But that doesn't include being careless. This whole approach is wrong.
negligence is not worth the risk of life !
"I understand what you've done here, Q, but I think the lesson could have been learned without the loss of eighteen members of my crew."
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's *not* for the timid!"
@@spaceflight1019 "Q Who"
I performed research for NASA many years ago and learned some details about the Columbia shuttle tragedy. The Federal agency that runs our spy satellites offered to train their incredibly powerful cameras on the left wing of the shuttle while in orbit. NASA managers turned down their offer. If they had accepted their offer and discovered the wing damage, the crew on board the shuttle could have gone into an emergency mode and conserved food, power, water. NASA could have worked 24-7 to ready a shuttle for a rescue mission to fly to Columbia and transfer the astronauts to the rescue shuttle. They might have been able to rescue the astronauts. Perhaps, the Columbia astronauts could have performed an emergency space walk to inspect the left wing damage? Anyway, the real issue was the shuttle placed the astronauts right next to the fuel tanks and it cost the lives of 14 astronauts and two shuttles. We had the best rocket ever created, the Saturn 5, and the shuttle could have been designed to be the third stage of the Saturn 5 rocket. Now, NASA is trying to recreate the Saturn 5 again and the SLS puts the astronauts on top of the rocket so that if there is an emergency they can blast themselves from the rocket and have a chance to escape!
If the damaged to the shuttle wing was not discovered or determined until after the accident, why would anyone have offered to examine the wing while it was still in orbit?
Mark thank you for sharing your knowledge. This was so sad.
NASA knew an iceball dislodged from the main fuel tank and hit the left wing of the shuttle at launch. The NASA engineers tried to simulate the “hit” on the left wing and determined there was minimal damage to the shuttle left wing. Obviously, their simulation was NOT correct. They then turned down the offer of the US spy satellites taking pictures of the shuttle left wing? Our spy satellites’ cameras are so powerful that on a clear day they can read the print of a book from 150 miles up in space!
@@markw.965 Iceball? Not a piece of foam?????????????
@@11lucygoosey I watched the video of the ice, ice +foam, or foam alone at least 50 times. The mass of the object might be the highest with a ice + foam object, but the density of a pure iceball might cause the most damage? The key point is the NASA managers should have aggressively sought every source of assistance, i.e., US spy satellites, to determine just how much damage had been inflicted upon the left wing of the Columbia shuttle!
Condolences to the families and classrooms involved.
Yes it was a well produced Video, Apart from the fact that editor did not give anough time for people to read the script properly without stopping and starting it, it's not race to see who can get to end first, great idea lovely music shame about the editing.
And the lack of proof reading, the difference between professional and amateur, keep up the good work and you will get there. Constructive criticism should never be taken personally, it means people notice your efforts and want to help you improve your overall production, and a respectful acknowledgement of the seven astronauts who perished.
... and too many spelling mistakes.
I am a slow reader, so I had to pause the vision to read it all properly.
Don't give up though. This is good stuff!
Intro had "Colombia". Proofread much?
I can't imagine what went through their minds and I don't believe that they were knocked out and unconscious. I feel like that is something said to lessen the trauma to the family and public.
The G forces the crew were subjected to would have killed them almost immediately. The report on this states it clearly.
@@mywifesboyfriend5558 Yes I know that is what the report says. When horrific plane crashes happen like Pan Am 103 or TWA 800 they say that the victims were knocked out/unconscious ect. I'm saying that I believe that is something told to the family of the victims and the public to put their mind at ease so they don't think they suffered. I hope they were unconscious. I couldn't imagine how awful it would be to be aware of what was happening.
Latasha doesn't believe in G forces
The follow on report to the original investigation known as the Columbia Crew Survival Investigation Report is a second-by-second (more like 10ths of seconds) analysis of the break up. The crew cabin cracked due to forces. It took just a few seconds before the crew became incapacitated. A few seconds later the cabin begin to break up. Most of the crew body parts were recovered.
The zoom feature on that camera was amazing to follow the shuttle that long and that far away !
yeah i wonder why its so hard to film sasquatch from 100 yards those pics were probly taken at 30000 feet or more
This is beautiful. As much as a tragedy can be. Hope people understand what I mean.
I couldnt sleep that night, Here in DFW. I heard it cracking up early in the morning. It had a horrable sound, like a few metal trash cans being repeatedly thrown against the grounds. The thing is, no neighbors in my neck of the woods have metal trash cans, they are plastic. I left my window open when I heard it cracking up. I was horrid. Rip Shuttle astronaughts!!!😟
Watched it live in my seventh-grade science class will be a day I never forget
My male cat brought a tiny kitten home with him that day. I named him Astro in honor of the astronauts. Living in Florida, there was nothing compared to watching a shuttle launch. I didn't see that shuttle launch though.
I love how the animation has anti-collision lights on the orbiter wing tips!
like it was going to collide with anything.......besides a piece of foam, during take off.
That wasn't a flight center? That was a nuclear power control room!
Was wondering who else would notice that. Pretty lame video editing isn't it?
@@zentriceggofficial It seems there must be an automated tool that puts together video clips themed according to some input text. I saw multiple 'music videos' created this way for old songs. Or maybe authors of these videos act as such tool. Really annoying to watch.
How did Chernobyl enter this? :-)
Confusion because a space shuttle blew up the same year
also 1 minute in we see a brief Saturn V launch clip........ Silly stuff.
4:15 William C. McCool was once a pilot for my Naval Air Unit VAQ-132 on Whidbey Island. They hang a picture of him with this astronaut flight suit and a picture of Columbia behind him.
Whidbey is a short distance East of us in Victoria BC.
Brown told an EVMS colleague before the flight that he had major concerns about the safety of the flight and that he had doubts about his safe return.
I distinctly remember my dad calling me from my bedroom and me going into the living room and showing me something on the tv. And I said ‘what’s that daddy?’ And he said ‘That’s Columbia.’ My heart sank. My dad worked for USA (United space alliance) and his cell phone, my house phone, and my moms cell phone all started ringing at the same time. Living right next to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, it was like clockwork, seeing a shuttle go up and come back. You never think something like that will happen. Return to Flight was so important but also so scary. When we were watching Columbia disintegrate, my mom said ‘that’s the end of the shuttle program. This is what’s going to end it’ and she was right.
I remember the very day that a Apollo 1 ground training mission ended in disaster. At that time they were using pure oxygen in the cabin, when a small short happened and ignited everything in the cabin like a blow torch. All 3 members died in seconds. Things happen and brave people die when stepping out on a knifes edge, but we must remember that all those that do so benefited all of us with a much better life with all the new tech they were part of discovering. The day that Columbia broke apart on reentry was another very sad day for all of us, as was Challenger's liftoff. Others will brave space travel and push the limits of tech for the betterment of all of us. I hope that all the new brave souls that take on space flight return to us here on earth safe and sound.
Roger that! Very well Expressed and said brother Joe. 🇺🇸
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pas attaqués par ce 'N°7' .
☆" Agence du Développement
Intrastellaire" (2030-->) .
There is actually a few seconds of video, very rarely shown, of Ed White inside Apollo 1 on fire with fire all around trying to get the hatch open. Then the fire's intensity swells to wall to wall hot white-orange, filling the hatch window view. Ed falls back disappearing into the fire, the capsule-filled oxygen blowtorch.
Even after Challenger, which I was in homeroom in Jr. High for, this one is the one that really broke my heart. Columbia was the first, and I was there when she first launched and brought this entire amazing era of space exploration to fruition. She was supposed to come home and be here with us today. RIP to her crew, and to all of those we lost in these ventures out of our atmosphere.
Okay wow. AMAZING work! I can't even imagine how many hours and how much effort you put into this. Thank you
Thank you so much!
@@DJSHaKa I know I can’t read that fast
The general rule of thumb for on screen text is to read it three times before taking it off. Your text generally doesn't stay up long enough to be read comfortably without pausing the video. This is especially true for the longer blocks of text.
You might be dyslexic or something but I can read it just fine, almost too fast to the point where I wait for the next text
@@eatyourvegetables1449 kinda a jerk thing to say. I am dyslexic and i had no isses reading. It has to do with speed not the way it is presented. Which i will say 2 slides moved too fast regardless.
Not to mention all the misspellings.
Yeah, I remember the news of this event like it was yesterday.
It’s very sad.
On a positive note(if I may) might welcome you all to go see the space shuttle that have been decommissioned. Ladies n gent’s it is amazing to be standing next to such magnificent technology structures. I did so recently, I went and saw the Space Shuttle Discovery, and it is nothing short of amazing.
I remember this day vividly too. I was in high school I was 15 years old and my brother walked up to me and said did you hear what just happened and told me the horrible news. It was devastating. They had a contest for all teachers to enter and go into space on that day.
My eighth grade science teacher in Key West Florida enter that contest and so did many other of my science teachers in high school. I remember one of my teachers saying they could have been me. It’s so sad. Rest in peace all seven crewmembers.
You obviously don't remember it TOO vividly. lol! You're thinking of Challenger, not Columbia.
@@matthewcetorelli8451 yes I was thinking that halfway through reading the comment. That's the challenger in 86 and that was destroyed during launch not re entry. I've forgotten the name of the school teacher.
That was Challenger, it never made it into space that day. It exploded with the full stack still attached.
@@mrmeerkat1096 Her name was Christa McAuliffe.
@@matthewcetorelli8451 thanks
I'll never forget that I was in line at the drive through bank when I heard about it on the radio, just incredibly sad!
boy, there are some typos in there that make for primary school reading
primary school kids could do much better,but i agree with you
You overestimate the reading speed of your average viewer.
I was doing ten days for a bar brawl in county jail when this happen. The guard came in and told us what happen and every inmate lowered their heads for a prayer.
The mision was parcially sucessful (the payload reached space) but the shuttle orbiter recovery failled due to heat shield failture. (Rest in peace 😿 crew that were there)
To those curious, according to NASA reports, the cabin was depressurized, causing the crew to become unconscious near instantaneously. It is highly unlikely they felt ANY pain. May these brave national heroes rest in peace.
Suits are on and pressurized during re entry
Even though they knew it was coming, it must have been terrifying for a split second when the two engines broke away at the 2:00 mark.
I imagine them working the problem to the end. Astronauts don't seem built to give up . Brings us back together for a short period of pride in their actions and the skill of the engineers. Before going back to our small problems made large by others.
We were having a garage sale that morning. I lived in Lufkin Tx. I remember looking up and seeing these illuminated looking diamonds in the sky. They were followed by fire and smoke. I remember seeing it break up into multiple pieces. Then i felt a rumble that til this day ive never experienced again. My grandfather said “thats what it sounded like when we tested Patriot missiles” this day forever sticks with me. A part of history i wish we had never had to experience
RIP to the Space Shuttle Columbia crew..forever legends of humankind.
Definitely one of my favorite videos from you. Great video! Extremely interesting and underrated
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@TechnoBlogGuru you realise this is a bot, right?
My nephew was working as a firefighter in Oregon when this happened. He went down to Texas with firefighters from all over the country to comb the prairie for pieces of the shuttle. He found several himself.
Good for him.
So long ago, yet seems like yesterday. Fly on brave pioneers. RIP
It was the administration and NASA management that made the decision to launch. I saw an interview with Roger Boisjoly on PBS back in 1988. He advised NASA not to launch and said that it would be a be a violation of launch safety protocols. He was told (in his words) to take off his engineer hat and put on his management hat. He knew at that point that they were going to launch anyway, and a protest would be pointless. They were determined to not miss their launch window, teacher in space, etc...
He was watching the launch with fellow engineers. He said that his manager leaned forward and said (paraphrasing) "It looks like we dodged a bullet" or something that effect and a few seconds later the center fuel tank exploded. They immediately knew the reason. He was horrified. Yes, he felt like he should have protested louder but knew it would not of made a difference. He carried that guilt with him for the rest of his life. And... YES, they tried to pin the blame on Morten-Thiokol for the disaster because they needed a scapegoat. It was in fact NASAs management reckless decision that caused the disaster not only killing seven people but destroying 4 billion dollars' worth of going to space hardware. It also delayed the program for three years.
They always say it "stunned the nation" or some such BS. I was in my 20s then and watching the launch. All I remember is being really pissed. I knew that there was no emergency protocols for the people on board and that they sure to die or dead already.
I have been a space junkie since I was a little kid and watched every Apollo launch and waited and waited for the shuttle which was a couple years behind schedule when it finally launched. The Shuttle program was poorly planned and funded. It never lived up to what NASA said it would be capable of. I remember early on one NASA engineer was quoted saying "We designed a Cadillac but ended up with a Chevy".