Seconds from Disaster - S02E01 - Space Shuttle Columbia [Columbia's Last Flight]

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1. lier
2. Given the chance I would go in a heartbeat..... done deal.
3. "its normal that things fly of a booster during lauch?" Really, did he really say that? Yeah, so it was a matter of time until something happens. What kind of an engineer would justify that? That is as if lets say, GMC cars are falling apart while driving and the company says; "yeah, our cars break apart when driving, but thats normal and you'll be save". The Soyuz doesn't lose any parts when it launches and re-enters. That's why its program survived for over 40 years now. Last fatality was in 1971 I believe. Foam flew off and they say "thats normal". No, thats not normal. Something is wrong with the design. And a soft foam is no longer a soft foam, when it impacts at over 500 mp/h.
4. NASA retired the Space Shuttle in 2011
5. disliked and reported for misleading content from the thumbnail
6. Armchair experts below.
7. NASA clearly had certain amounts of knowledge of what is to come when Columbia reenters the atmosphere. They's never tell the astronauts that, but if I were one of astronauts on board, I'd actually prefer to know that I won't be able to return. Yes, it's devastating, but spending my last moments admiring the beauty of space and pondering on how insignificant I am compared to the vast universe is probably much better than spending my last few minutes in absolute horror as the space shuttle tears apart.
   But of course, this would never happen, even if NASA's fully aware of what is to come.
8. I say this at all these disaster videos: cameras exist!
9. rest in peace
   illan, the first israeli austronut
10. Stupid Brits and their way of presenting media. I don't want goddamn piano music for impact or people doing obviously fake recreations of events. I want the facts and analysis damning NASA, not crying wives. This is why British "documentaries" are pure trash.
11. And it should be obvious that any of the higher ups who obstructed the efforts to get pictures, threatened workers who had concerns, and then discounted the obvious after the fact, should be rotting in jail for "negligent homicide".
12. It's a sad paradox: Had this not happened to Columbia, they would not have had the "Flight Development Instrumentation Recorder" system to record all the extra data.
    
    On the other hand, any other orbiter would have had an RMS arm and the "is there a hole?" mystery would have been solved before the end of Day 1.
13. Columbia is used 20+ times. the panels may have stretched and become thinner. heat causes expansion
14. If the ESA or CCCP or whoever and NASA joined forces, they could have sent up crews to rescue the Shuttle team. All they had to do was to realize that the foam strike WAS potentially disastrous, and not just bureaucratically twiddle their fingers and dismiss it as "The wing will be fine, we don't need to tell the crew the danger it poses, so um... no."
    That would have been the story of the century - U.S., Russian, Chinese, and European space agencies collaborate on a crash program to send up a Shuttle or other craft and rescue Columbia.
15. Would it be viable for the crew to take backup RCC pannels inside the shuttle in case an unfortunate event like the one that happened with Columbia takes place? It just seems so obvious that it may not even be viable, just wondering...
16. congress fucked up here
17. Well girl it didn't explode on launch but it did break apart in re-entry
18. lol clickbait
19. Rest in peace.....
20. Bush did it