subtitled ♦ Last Taped Minutes in the Cockpit - Accident Space Shuttle Columbia
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Subtitled last taped 13 minutes in the Cockpit +crew comunication during fatal re-entry before it was destroyed. The Shuttle Columbia STS-107 was lost on its 28th mission 1/2/03 . Among the 80.000 recovered items later found on the ground was this videotape recording made by the astronauts during the start of re-entry. The 13-minute recording shows the flight crew astronauts conducting routine re-entry procedures and joking with each other. None gives any indication of a problem. In this video, the flight-deck crew puts on their gloves and passes the video camera around to record plasma and flames visible outside the windows of the orbiter (a normal occurrence). This recording, which on normal flights would have continued through landing, ends about four minutes before the shuttle began to disintegrate and 11 minutes before Mission Control lost the signal from the orbiter The only minutes on tape that survived re-entry Space Shuttle Crew: flightdeck: Commander Rick D. Husband Pilot William C. McCool Mission Specialist 4 Laurel B. Clark Mission Specialist 2 Kalpana Chawla Miid deck : (not in video) Ilan Ramon Michael Anderson David Brown .
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These people were headed home to their families....so sad. :( How can anyone say Space flight is a hoax.
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sadly saying if i was the leader or the pilot of the space shuttle i will fly to the ISS and remain there till NASA finds out a way to bring us back
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It is wrong to say that "the true extent of the damage was kept from them" since until the moment when the shuttle disintegrated, NO ONE knew about the true extent. Mind you that losing tiles and foam strikes were (sadly seen as) "normal" ever since the 1st space shuttle launch. The best we have is maybe that SOME engineers at NASA were "very concerned" once it was known that foam struck...but it was still not considered as anything urgent since similar happened all the time. Why do you think did NASA do the tests afterwards? Because BEFORE they did the tests, the common assumption was that the foam pieces cannot do any major damage to the orbiter...and it needed the tests to prove them wrong. "Oh snap! That piece of foam that was shot at the same speed and angle did indeed rip a hole into the wing".
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I would never want to be an astronaut because you could be sent on a suicide mission you wouldn't know about and NASA doesn't care as long as they get their data and footage.
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The operators at the desks on planet earth knew already that they wont make it down in one piece....So sad and disappointing
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the flashing lights outside the window are really disturbing.
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rip in pepperonies
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Omg. One of the o-rings wasn't opening up and eventually depressurized the remaining fuel and blew.
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well we know from the final report about the accident that, the helmets, seat belts all failed due to the extreme violent tumbling of the shuttle, all of the astronauts suffered Brutal impact injuries because of this, some of the crew didnt have their gloves on, death wouldove been almost instant as soon as the cabin opened up to the atmosphere....RIP...
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The clip ends 4 min before the first failure observed from the ground, and 10 mins before the crew got notified, so there's a 6 min window of the ground crew knowing what is happening without letting the crew know? Is this done deliberately to spare them the terror of knowing, or just missing the decency to keep them up to date on what's going on?
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The structure were getting several small damages caused by debris hitting it , eventually leading the rapid and fatal cabin de-pressurization, as the crew were speaking! At the 11:30 second into the video there was a comment by one of the male crew about how "amazingly bright" the plasma flashes he was seeing through the cabin windows! (These were due the unusual events happening just outside the cabin, and seen by many people on the ground, who saw many unusual bright flashes in the shuttle streaks!) This was the only remark expressing surprise at was going on! Sad!
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is it not possible to do an emergency HALO jump with a pressurized suit?
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I hope for their sake it was extremely quick & they were not afraid or suffered. these types of people are real heroes in my book, for too many reasons to list ...
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We know they did not suffer at least since G forces would have killed instantly so there was no pain involved yet that does no good for families or friends other than is one of the first things they want to know is did they suffer and how long so it give a tiny bit of peace knowing there was zero suffering but terrible to be gone back into non existence so early in this one life.
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11:44....a sadly ironic comment, considering what happened shortly afterwards.
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So thesse people are dead. That is so sad
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"this is amazing, it's getting really bright out there"
Well no shit, your shuttle is abotu to fucking explode. -
did someone can see a littlel point crossing the window of the spaceshuttle outdoor of it, someone can explainme what was it, take a look is not running in the same way spaceshuttle runs in fact the object is crossing perpendicular
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I only imagined the launch as scary or dangerous. That video, how it ends (never sure if that's the actual end) just based on what most any government would either censor or classify. Very sad and scary end, could only imagine the families experience hearing or seeing that. In a weird way it's shocking tho it is space travel, meaning nothing is promised.
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