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

You know, youre home free. So it was like a sigh of relief when they when they were, you know, up in space, and it was like, whew, they made it. Lets Take A Look at the view from orbit. This is 225 kilometers above us. Once they turn off those main engines and theyre in orbit, you know, youre in a relatively safe situation. You can safely walk away from the camera. And they started quickly playing the launch replays, and and that was when we saw it. I was in our truck. Producer called me in. He said, you got to look at this. It was kind of a grainy image, but, you know, you see this poof, like a like you dropped a bag of flour on the ground and it all floated into the air. Didnt take much of a telephoto to show this kind of explosion