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♪ ♪ ♪ -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 here's 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 you're wearing is your flight-surgeon hat, not your family hat. it would have broken protocol for me to bring up an issue to a crew me...

[ laughter ] ♪ ♪ ♪ -columbia approaching the coast of california now. the shuttle speed is 16,400 miles per hour. ♪ -flight back. go ahead mmacs. -fyi, i've just lost four separate temperature transducers on the left side of the vehicle ,

Columbia approaching the coast of california now. The Shuttle Speed is 16,400 miles per hour. Flight back. Go ahead mmacs. Fyi, ive just lost four separate Temperature Transducers on the left side of the vehicle , hydraulic return temperatures. We start seeing anomalies. Sensors are starting to fail. Okay, is there anything common to them . Dsc or Mdm Or Anything . I mean, youre telling me you lost them all at exactly the same time. No, not exactly. They were within probably four or five seconds of each other. There was something that we didnt understand going on