From the archives: Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on Feb. 1, 2003

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  • Опубликовано: 31 янв 2023
  • Wednesday marks 20 years since NASA’s Space Shuttle Columbia disaster that killed seven astronauts on board. On Feb. 1, 2003, the space shuttle was expected to land at 9:16 a.m. ET, but mission control in Houston lost contact with Columbia at around 9 a.m. ET. Shortly thereafter, debris was reported in the skies above Texas. The Columbia Accident Investigation Board later found the likely source of the accident was damage to the left wing caused by the left bipod foam ramp that broke off during takeoff. This damaged the protective tiles on the spacecraft and allowed hot gases to penetrate and melt major structural elements of the wing upon re-entry. Rick Husband, William McCool, Michael Anderson, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, Laurel Clark, and Ilan Ramon died in the tragedy. CBS anchor Russ Mitchell reported on the breaking story from the studio, joined by CBS News space consultant Bill Harwood at Kennedy Space Center.
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  • @CBSNews
    @CBSNews  Год назад +2

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  • @pault.backes6625
    @pault.backes6625 Год назад +71

    My heart goes out to the families of those seven astronauts.

    • @DarkStarHearts
      @DarkStarHearts Год назад +11

      @Goku what is the point of your nasty disgusting and disrespectful response? Everyday we are alive, we take risks. Even crossing the street you could be a victim of a hit a run. Are you not supposed to show empathy for people?

    • @Bhawkz95
      @Bhawkz95 Год назад +5

      @Goku that doesn't mean that you can't be remorseful lol

    • @BigSmoke-bu6ib
      @BigSmoke-bu6ib Год назад +1

      It's a little late for that.

    • @call_me_cooper
      @call_me_cooper Год назад

      @Goku How could you know to use ‘Knew’ but not use *their’ ???

    • @lepperkin
      @lepperkin Год назад

      @Goku The thing is, it would have gone right if NASA wasn't negligent. They knew something was wrong with Columbia, but they chose to not tell the astronauts and chose to not image the craft to see the damage. They were lazy and decided it would be too much work and that it would probably be fine. As a result, 7 people were needlessly killed.

  • @randhirparbhunath8843
    @randhirparbhunath8843 Год назад +39

    My heart sank once the news reached South Africa. I remember being devastated for days. Which boy doesn't want to go to space. These guys are still my heroes.

  • @DenisovichDev
    @DenisovichDev Год назад +18

    I remember the day, Kalpana Chawla was a hero here in India and she still is. A hero and an inspiration to all of us. May they all rest in peace.

  • @teddyobrien4801
    @teddyobrien4801 Год назад +30

    It is February 1st, 2003.
    She begins her journey home.
    Carrying a precious cargo, seven courageous travelers.
    The dreams of mankind entrust her with their survival.
    It is a dangerous path, but she is unafraid.
    Her body becomes enveloped in a blazing carapace.
    Many times before, she has made this journey, and has always completed it.
    But not this time.
    The fates do not grant her safe passage.
    They have decided her life shall end here.
    They demand her surrender, but she is not one to abdicate.
    She must protect them.
    For It is her solemn duty, her purpose.
    The intensity of the flames increased.
    Yet she stayed, seeing that her presence brought a peace of mind to those aboard her.
    Like a mother hen draping her protective wings over her fragile chicks.
    She knows she can’t defy the inexorable, but she must try.
    For them.
    The flames grew hotter still.
    She fights, fighting the drag, fighting her destiny.
    Home growing closer in her sights, and yet farther away.
    The flames now pierce her carbon skin, the pain now overpowering.
    She stayed as the atmosphere incinerated her.
    She stayed protecting her children.
    Embracing them closer than she ever had before.
    Until, she can shield them no longer.
    The angel has been clipped of her wings.
    Her ashes are showered upon the earth.
    Now, the streaks of orange and yellow have long since been erased from the sky.
    And yet, if you know where to look, there you’ll see that she stayed as she sleeps.
    With her children safely tucked gently under her wings.
    - "The Journey Home", a free verse poem written by me.
    Godspeed, Columbia and her crew.

    • @davonjohnson5528
      @davonjohnson5528 Год назад +2

      Well said poet

    • @peggymacmillan5069
      @peggymacmillan5069 Год назад

      Make a beat with a good singer
      Very nice work

    • @BelangerFamily09
      @BelangerFamily09 Год назад

      Your poem is painfully beautiful. I wish others could read this.

    • @teddyobrien4801
      @teddyobrien4801 Год назад

      @@BelangerFamily09 You can share it elsewhere if you'd like, just credit me.

  • @yikes7963
    @yikes7963 Год назад +30

    As a 50 yr old, this was the second space disaster incident seen on TV in my short life. Nothing though, could ever rise above the tragedy of watching 9/11 happen.

    • @mace2gorc872
      @mace2gorc872 Год назад +4

      I'm still in awe over 911. What a tradegy.

    • @lepperkin
      @lepperkin Год назад +1

      Well, yeah. It's like comparing a fatal car crash to the titanic sinking.

    • @peggymacmillan5069
      @peggymacmillan5069 Год назад +3

      Idk...respectively...this was worse then 9/11 (being) it wasn't pre planned.
      All respect.

    • @t33nyplaysp0p
      @t33nyplaysp0p Год назад +3

      Wtf dude. Why even compare the two?

    • @lepperkin
      @lepperkin Год назад

      @@peggymacmillan5069 I would consider the amount of innocent lives lost to be the deciding factor for how bad something is.

  • @Megalith79
    @Megalith79 Год назад +7

    I was 15 when this happened. Was on the phone with my dad who was overseas (he was an A-10 Warthog fighter pilot and this was right after 9/11, didn’t get to see him much) and we had the launch on TV. Mom gasped and I was stunned n I remember kinda stuttering into the phone “Uhh, dad? The shuttles gone?” And he said “What??” And mom took the phone from me. - feels like a lifetime ago. Prayers to those brave families who lost so much that day.. 😢

  • @jessetorres8738
    @jessetorres8738 Год назад +17

    I was a kid when this happened & I remember I was watching some cartoon when the screen went black for a second then the news came on to report this.

  • @kah10161
    @kah10161 Год назад +5

    I remember turning on the radio to check on the landing; living in FL, we would hear the sonic booms when the shuttle came home. When the booms were late, we turned on the radio to get updates. That’s when we all knew something was wrong.
    It was also my oldest son’s 1st birthday.

  • @RyanB1987
    @RyanB1987 Год назад +12

    5:52 he immediately identifies the reason the shuttle was lost.

  • @Karateka1973
    @Karateka1973 Год назад +12

    I remember watching this broadcast and having flashbacks to watching the Challenger explode. When you look at all the utterly stupid things our society gets divided over today, it makes this tragedy even more tragic. Those seven astronauts came from various backgrounds, ethnic origins and political views, yet none of that mattered to them during their mission. Our petty divisions dishonor the brave men and women who lost their lives that day.

  • @ferramirez4570
    @ferramirez4570 Год назад +2

    This footage looks so old I remember this vividly, I was about to turn 10 years that week, I had never seen something like that, it got stuck with me all this time.

  • @tacticaltop6758
    @tacticaltop6758 Год назад +1

    Absolutely heartbreaking. May they Rest in Peace! Condolences always to family, friends, and the nation for their tragic loss.

  • @galvinowens7398
    @galvinowens7398 Год назад +11

    I was there that morning seen it blowing up in the sky that morning. I was in northern Arizona that morning.

    • @TeaSpiracy
      @TeaSpiracy Год назад +1

      Omg that must have been sad to see. Did you see it by chance or where you waiting to lay eyes on it?

  • @always-positivity
    @always-positivity Год назад +1

    I was 10 when this happend and I remember it vividly.

  • @rickmann5227
    @rickmann5227 Год назад

    I lived through this. I called family in Texas to tell them about it.
    Yet today, I am hearing it for the first time AGAIN.
    How is this even possible? How could I have forgotten this?

  • @rydermccracken9199
    @rydermccracken9199 Год назад

    This is just sad r.i.p to all the people that passed away God bless them and their families.

  • @vaughnb142
    @vaughnb142 Год назад +1

    I remembered this day🙏🏾🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️🕊️

  • @sookie_the_fairy
    @sookie_the_fairy Год назад +5

    Bless them... They should have taken the satellite images.. It would have been a space walk.. At least a chance.. I'm glad they are back to the Apollo design.. My great grandfather bought parts for an Apollo mission when he worked at Rockwell.. Not a huge thing but I'm proud... Hugs fellow humans.. 🇺🇦🇺🇸🌎✌

  • @maxthekit
    @maxthekit Год назад +15

    I was ten when this happened and in school we are doing a lesson about space and we were watching the coverage of this Landing it was heartbreaking then and it's still heartbreaking today

  • @sultan32u
    @sultan32u Год назад

    May their souls rest in peace.

  • @emiliobello2538
    @emiliobello2538 Год назад +2

    Oh my

  • @calliegbreezine3861
    @calliegbreezine3861 Год назад +2

    Russ Mitchell 💝

  • @ZuluLifesaBeech-
    @ZuluLifesaBeech- Год назад +1

    RIP Astronauts 🇺🇸

  • @manuelbello5806
    @manuelbello5806 Год назад +6

    20 years

  • @STSRTF
    @STSRTF Год назад +7

    If Columbia had not been destroyed on this mission then it would have been launched on STS 118 on November 13, 2003 to deliver the S5 Truss Segment to ISS. It would have been Columbia's first and likely only time going to the ISS. Endeavour was launched on STS 118 on August 8, 2007.

  • @ChosenOne6666
    @ChosenOne6666 Год назад +23

    George Santos was a backup astronaut in the Challenger Space Mission. Also, he fought alongside Napoleon at the battle of Waterloo.

    • @superoldgamesaturday3277
      @superoldgamesaturday3277 Год назад +1

      Those are things Biden claimed.

    • @NTN_Lex
      @NTN_Lex Год назад +3

      Super Santos was back up for Columbia too.

    • @ChosenOne6666
      @ChosenOne6666 Год назад +1

      @@superoldgamesaturday3277 Trump said it first.

    • @willshogren1987
      @willshogren1987 Год назад

      Santos, Trump and Biden are all breathtaking liars.

  • @disneyslittleeinsteinsfan8602
    @disneyslittleeinsteinsfan8602 8 месяцев назад

    Little Mammoth Media did The Big Space Shuttle video during the STS 83 and STS 94 flights before the Columbia accident 6 years later.

  • @timhornswaggle1243
    @timhornswaggle1243 Год назад +7

    Such a shame they knew this would happen and couldn’t do anything. They weren’t in full panic because the engineers all knew this shuttle had to no chance of making it back safely. I’m sure they did all they could, but make no mistake, they knew the astronauts would not survive and chose to not tell them after the problematic take off. I have a lot of pride in NASA but I will always question the decision to not tell the astronauts.

  • @tracymiller1149
    @tracymiller1149 10 месяцев назад +2

    At 6:00, he nails the cause of the accident.

  • @Rl082992
    @Rl082992 Год назад +1

    I was 10 years old at the time this happened.

  • @nasahistorian8639
    @nasahistorian8639 Год назад +3

    RIP American heroes

  • @sandrasanders706
    @sandrasanders706 Год назад +2

    Horrendous moment since 9/11.. those poor astronauts..

  • @jedidahadser9385
    @jedidahadser9385 Год назад +1

    Where is Santos?

  • @MurderWeSolved
    @MurderWeSolved Год назад

    That lady who was suppose to be backup for christa and then on the Columbia was the luckiest woman alive.

  • @vastcarter
    @vastcarter Год назад +9

    The shuttle was a death trap change my mind

    • @justsomeguy6240
      @justsomeguy6240 Год назад +6

      No need to change your mind. Because you’re completely correct.

    • @bradevans5566
      @bradevans5566 Год назад +4

      Sure, so is any aircraft you fly in or even your car when in motion. Those of us who fly or drive accept the risk of something going wrong or someone else being very irresponsible. One day we’ll look at the original shuttle like we look at a Model T Ford today.

    • @SpartanNat
      @SpartanNat Год назад +1

      The Space Shuttle was an amazing system, but for every positive, it had at least 1 negative in return. Among them was what doomed Columbia, the side mounted shuttle position to reuse the RS-25 engines.

    • @JohnnyCatFitz
      @JohnnyCatFitz Год назад +1

      Idiot

    • @badmanarnie2456
      @badmanarnie2456 Год назад

      How many missions did it run?
      How many failed?
      How many airplanes have crashed? Does that mean planes are a death trap even though its widely regarded as the safest form of travel?

  • @sologmt3277
    @sologmt3277 Год назад +1

    😥😥😥

  • @Rl082992
    @Rl082992 Год назад +4

    I was in the hospital when this happened.

  • @boeingpameesha9550
    @boeingpameesha9550 Год назад

    Great!

  • @user-wq8eh6bn3m
    @user-wq8eh6bn3m 7 месяцев назад

    Bonsoir

  • @kimmiemillionare2550
    @kimmiemillionare2550 Год назад +2

    🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

  • @hiroshi138
    @hiroshi138 Год назад

    Nice click bait. All this is is two talking heads guessing about what happened.

  • @jakecahill7795
    @jakecahill7795 Год назад

    Can we get an L in the chat

  • @universaleducationsystems2722
    @universaleducationsystems2722 Год назад

    But yet, THEY CLAIM THEY WENT TO THE MOON. HOW this is the second time this has happened. So, how they got to the moon then. So they say

  • @smadaf
    @smadaf 10 месяцев назад

    CBS News, when will you stop stretching your 4:3 pictures out of shape? Don't stretch them; don't crop them: just leave them as your skilled producers intended them. Stop patronizing us with gimmicks we don't want.

  • @HurricanePatrick
    @HurricanePatrick Год назад +1

    At least ppl haven't died under Elon Musk's Space X

  • @emiliobello2429
    @emiliobello2429 Год назад +3

    In 2003 many teen girls got pregnant and had babies.