Inside Mission Control During STS-107 Columbia's Failed Re-entry and disaster

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1. Onboard tile repair kit & astronaut training to inspect & refit on an EVA in orbit if necessary unbelievably not thought of before. Common sense aint so common, as they say.
2. You can hear the screams briefly at 5:18
3. So sad. You can see tears and hear it in his voice when he says, "I copy Fido" 13:39 R.I.P. ❤
4. I remember that day and seeing it happen on TV. This is about the very worst "bad day at work" you can possibly imagine. My God rest their souls.
5. "lock the doors" such a heartbreaking moment.
6. Mission Control knew for a fact after 14 days in space they would not make it home!
7. DENIAL is the 8th Deadliest Sin... if HOPE comes denial, then it is the 9th...
8. At 19:00 you can tell they are watching TV footage. The CNN feed is shot from the other side of the room the television is visible right where they're looking. At 19:17 tears down the face confirm the worst.
9. NASA transcripts of this event seem to miss what I notice clear as day.... at 5:04 the shuttle commander clearly says.... "Feeling that heat."
10. Three words no flight director ever wants to say: lock the doors. These guys are the best of the best, and handle this tragedy with such professionalism.
11. they knew they were fucked and did nothing we had the secret tech to fix this in orbit they refused absolute bullshit it could have been fixed we could have asked china and russia for hep not to metion lockheed and northrup get fukin woke people u really think this tech is the extent of what our military can do? look up TR3-b aurora project triangle and get woke
12. The GC needs to grow a pair
13. 144p ffs
14. NASA rehearses and prepares for everything. Which means from the time they first knew about the foam strike on launch they knew exactly what failures to expect on re-entry and had reviewed them all in preparation. Which means they watched as one by one every expected failure began to happen. And there was absolutely nothing they could do about it except pray it held together long enough...
15. Jesus Christ .. U only had to look at the faces on Mission Control .. that was watching a crew Die ..
16. You can see on their faces they knew it was going to happen the whole time. Man.
17. i live in one of the towns that was heavily effected by it
18. Mission control knew about the wing damage. They felt it was an acceptable risk to try the landing instead of repairing the damage. They were wrong.
19. I remember when this happened...shockd