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Oh, is that it . There it is thats it right there. There it is. Yeah, i see it. I saw it. There it is. Oh, its cool. Yeah. That is cool. Oh, check that out, man. Its going really fast. Whoa. What the heck is that . I dont know. Wow. Look at the chunks coming off of it yeah, i saw that. Yeah. I see what youre saying. That thing looks like its flipping all over the place. Oh, yeah. I can still see it, but im losing it. It was a saturday morning. It was a beautiful day. And as i turned onto park street, i heard a loud boom. [ rumbling ] our house just shook. We looked at each other, and we said, ...

♪ ♪ ♪ -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...

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>> it was a beautiful day and as i turned onto park street, i heard a loud boom house to shook we looked at each other. he said, what is that when i looked at i saw a bright white ball what appears that we have in this area? >> phones were ringing off the hook much more than our dispatch staff could handle -i didn't know if we were being attacked. -search and rescue teams are warning people not to touch any debris, should they come across it. -there are some disturbing pictures that are coming up from the broadcasters. -we're waiting for more details as to how this happened,

I was preparing to come to work. it was beautiful day, beautiful drive. and as i turned onto park street, i heard a loud boom. [ explosion ] -all of a sudden, our house just shook. we, you know, looked at each other, and we said, "what is that? the space shuttle over nacogdoches? what is happening?" we had just gone through 9/11. and at first i thought, "did somebody blow it up?" -it was probably a reasonable thought that a lot of people had, that it could be something terrorist-related, even in this small, rural area, because you never know where that might take place. phones were ringing off...