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Transcripts for CNN Space Shuttle Columbia The Final Flight 20240604 01:04:00

smiles. alright. [ laughter ] -i would see the crew daily. -perfect. -let me take my glasses off. -that'll be in here. [ laughter ] i'm not a star-struck kind of person, right? but you fly 12,500 miles an hour? i was like, "yeah! i like you." [ laughs ] -whoo-hoo, baby! [ laughter ] -when they got selected as a crew, i went and got their astronaut bio and i read what they did, what they liked. [ laughter ] i went over and i'm like, "ah, doctor. ah. "dr. dave brown, surgeon. dr. kalpana chawla, phd." laurel -- laurel was a submarine doctor. i thought that was so cool. mike -- he's air force pilot. and then willie -- he was like a test pilot. rick -- he'd already been up to space. and then there was ilan. you know, he was already a hero in his country.

Transcripts for CNN Space Shuttle Columbia The Final Flight 20240604 01:14:00

in all, there are more than 59 experiments. ♪ -my husband rick was the commander of the space shuttle columbia. -howdy! [ laughter ] -never in my wildest dreams did i think i'd ever meet an astronaut, much less marry one. and so he told me. he said that he wanted -- since he was 4 years old that he wanted to be an astronaut. -my name is rick husband. i'm the commander of sts-107. we're going to be flying a 16-day science mission. -i was, i think, probably 10 or 11. i knew it was a big, in-charge position and that he would be the leader of the team. you think of something like buzz lightyear, star command. you're like, "wow, dad's the commander of a shuttle." [ laughs ] -okay, let's do like this, you know? -yeah. -while they were in training, dave brown, one of the astronauts, came to rick and asked if it was okay if he recorded footage of the crew throughout the mission.

Transcripts for CNN Space Shuttle Columbia The Final Flight 20240604 01:45:00

yeah, launch day is pretty special. ♪ [ indistinct speaking ] -okay. -alright. here we go. [ hands tapping rhythmically ] [ laughs ] -every launch, we do this really strange thing where we play this card game, this poker game, because it's been done since neil armstrong. -you win. you win. no, that's good. it's good. it's good to win. -i get to go to space. -one step closer to launch here. -everything is timed very specifically. and they actually have a, you know -- it was an old analog clock with a marker on it. then you just got to wait. you want to go. -you know the risk, and you know what you're getting ready to do. you know, if you don't, you probably shouldn't be in that business. -rick husband got the whole crew together inside the suit room before they went out the door into the hallway.

Transcripts for CNN Space Shuttle Columbia The Final Flight 20240604 02:05:00

there's pride, excitement. but more than anything, i just loved listening to rick's voice. i loved listening to him talk back and forth with mission control. ♪ -as a kid, it mostly just felt... exciting and new and just kind of made your world feel more magical and bigger. i was just like, "yeah, that's just awesome. space is so cool." ♪ -all of us as a group were extremely concerned about what we had just seen. looking at that film, we were all discussing how big are we talking about a problem? how much damage are we talking about?

Transcripts for CNN Space Shuttle Columbia The Final Flight 20240604 02:18:00

-columbia, this is cnn. how do you read me? -hey, cnn. we've got you loud and clear. -stand by, and we'll have you on the tele here very shortly. say hello to the crew of the space shuttle columbia, now traveling above the pacific at 17,300 miles an hour, 150 miles above us, waving to us. let's give you an idea of who's who. i remember interviewing the crew in space. rick husband, the commander, second mission. laurel clark... prepping for that interview, i thought about the foam strike and how to handle it. but on launch day, when i saw that...footage, i wasn't sure what to think about it. i'm not a rocket scientist, so i called to somebody who i know -- knew very well at nasa. i said, "help me understand how worried i should be for this." and he said, "oh, it's foam. it's very light material. probably doesn't cause any damage."

Transcripts for CNN Space Shuttle Columbia The Final Flight 20240604 03:10:00

no big weather issues when you're landing. -flight director leroy cain discussing weather conditions at present with forecasters here. -leroy was the person in charge. so everybody on their consoles are monitoring their own systems, and they're all reporting into leroy what they're seeing. -columbia, houston. -go ahead, houston. -hey, rick, i guess you've been wondering, but you are go for the de-orbit burn. we are happy with the weather at ksc. you are go for the burn. -de-orbit burn is a major decision in the process. once that de-orbit burn is made, you are committed to landing. they're coming home. one way or the other, they're coming home.

Transcripts for CNN Space Shuttle Columbia The Final Flight 20240604 03:08:00

-they put bleachers close to the runway, and you're driven down there and you're 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, we're ready for the manoeuvre. -i did not usually come in for a landing. to me, those were so routine. usually, the orbiter has been working well, they have a good weather call. but i had this wing concern because of the impact. so i said, "i will go in." i realized that most of those people at those consoles -- they don't know anything that's been going on for two weeks. they've been looking at the condition of this system, this system, but they don't know any other history. -i was the lead entry ground controller for the mission.

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that's the stomach punch right there. ♪ -and columbia, houston, we see your tire-pressure messages , and we did not copy your last. -roger. ♪ -i remember that clipped call that rick had , knowing you can have communications that drop out or are intermittent at that point. ♪ -we lost comm with the crew, but that's actually common. i mean, you don't have communications all the way through entry . so that didn't initially get my attention. ♪ -good morning to you. i'm miles o'brien. it is now 9:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. out west. take a look outside. you should see