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-what was starting to join up was youve got video analysis that says the strike on the orbiter created a hole in the wing. and you can see that there had been some sort of penetration against the rcc panel. hot gas had entered in, the shuttle had lost aerodynamic control and crashed. but i think the challenge for a lot of folks at nasa was believing that foam had done that. they would say foam cant break reinforced carbon-carbon. there were a lot of people that said theres something else that ex...

I hear from Launch Control he vehicle has exploded. Thats the orbiter itself. The Shuttle Challenger has exploded. We must assume that the crew is not alive. This is unheralded in the history of the space program. Ladies and gentlemen, i have covered Space Shuttle launches since the very first launch, since before the first launch itself, going way back, and nothing like this has ever happened. [ woman screams ] it was a sad day for all americans. This was our space program. This was our nationa...

Well, they came to the conclusion that the best way to deal with that was to arrange a system of tiles to cover the shuttle. All of the black here shown is all tiles. And these tiles are made of a Silica Fiber Material which is very heatresistant. I can show you. This is a test tile. There are about 31,000 of them all together, and we hope those tiles will stay on when the orbiter comes back into the atmosphere, because otherwise the craft itself could be damaged. During the development of the S...

Cheap, very effective. But its got this property that, as you go through supersonic flight in the atmosphere, bits of it come. The question is how bad of shape is the orbiter in . And bob said, i really wish there was some way to get more information. I knew this mission passed over places where there were some highaltitude telescopes. These are looking at stars. So if you want to look at the orbiter, you could probably get the entire Orbiter Fit in the Field Of View and have extremely good reso...

So the orbiter was flying with the parachute without its door. Nasa made a request to get some imagery. However, the photos didnt help much. So, even if you can get photographs, it doesnt mean theyll necessarily show anything. I think they were a little bit embarrassed in the end about asking. And nasa never wants to look stupid. Nasa wants to be the agency with the answers. If youd have said, linda, two different people need this information. Their departments are both asking. Are you aware . T...

I was desperately waiting for my mom to come back. The thing i was most excited about was just holding her again and talking to her. They put bleachers close to the runway, and youre driven down there and youre in a set of bleachers with your friends and family that you have invited for the landing. They had speakers, and you could hear rick talking. And, rick, were ready for the manoeuvre. I did not usually come in for a landing. To me, those were so routine. Usually, the orbiter has been worki...

Those protect the vehicle from the highest level of heat, those 3,000 degree temperatures, so that you dont get metal melting. But we had never had any experience in breaking a panel. What was starting to join up was youve got Video Analysis that says the strike on the orbiter created a hole in the wing. And you can see that there had been some sort of penetration against the rcc panel. Hot gas had entered in, the shuttle had lost aerodynamic control and crashed. But i think the challenge for a ...

And if you follow the logic, you begin to see pieces that are telling you a story. As we were progressing through the leftwing reconstruction, you can see these burned tiles, this reinforced carboncarbon, looks like its been burned in a way thats very different than everything else. All of that data pointed to a problem at Rcc Panel 8. Something very different happened in this location on the orbiter. And so, lets go see if we can understand what that was. Ok, so, as the vehicle is entering the ...

And subsequently impacted the orbiter left wing. Experts have reviewed the highspeed photography, and there is no concern for Rcc Or Tile damage. We have seen this same phenomenon on several other flights and theres absolutely no concern for entry. That is all for now it is a pleasure working with you every day. So, they saw something. Theyre taking care of it. This email was too short, too sweet, too easy. Okay. Good Morning And Welcome to the mmt. Day nine. Rodneys team presented their analysi...

The mission aboard the Orbiter Columbia is 24 seven science marathon. In all there are more than 59 experiments my husband rick was the commander of the Space Shuttle Columbia there were my wildest dreams so i think id ever made an astronaut, much less mary one. Yeah. So he told me he said that he wanted since he was four years old, he wanted to be an astronaut. My name is Rick Husband im the commander vsts, one of seven. Were going to be fine. Uh, 16 day science mission. I was i think probably ...