Streaking Meteor News Today

♪ ♪ ♪ -my wife, laurel, was on the shuttle. she was a scientist primarily involved with life sciences. one day during the mission, i was reviewing the notes, and then heres this foam issue. during launch, a large piece of foam had come off the external tank and impacted the left wing. me and my colleague had this discussion of, "hey, you can use a family conference to talk to laurel and find out what she knew." -oh! -you got to remember the hat youre wearing is your flight-surgeo...

What looks like a streaking meteor. its actually the space shuttle columbia coming back. were watching it. landing about 15 minutes away. ♪ -weve also lost the nose gear down talkback and the right main gear down talkback. ♪ -columbia, houston. comm check. ♪ -and then everybody started to lose sensors. they were getting no telemetry whatsoever. the screens were just going blank, reading nothing, just turning off. -columbia, houston, uhf, comm check. ♪ ♪ -there was a tenseness coming in...

We lost comm with the crew, but thats actually common. I mean, you dont have communications all the way through entry. So that didnt initially get my attention. Good morning to you. Im miles obrien. It is now 9 00 a. M. On the east coast, 6 00 a. M. Out west. Take a look outside. You should see what looks like a streaking meteor. Its actually the Space Shuttle Columbia coming back. Were watching it. Landing about 15 minutes away. Weve also lost the Nose Gear down talkback and the right main gear...

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Minutes after a loud blast happened and people started to panic. and somebody screamed, the end of the earth! reminded me of action movies like terminator 4. the light was very bright, looked like a very bright sun and lasted for three seconds and three minutes later, the blast happened. >> megyn: can you imagine what would be going through your mind? greg palkot with the latest in london. >> reporter: megyn, weve been monitoring all day the spectacular amateur video coming in from that russian ...