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Space Shuttle Columbia The Final Flight

-a little bit later in the day, in the afternoon, i got a call from linda, and she said, "hey, i heard that you were trying to get some better pictures." and she said that she had talked to all the appropriate managers and no one had a requirement for any more information. they had what they needed to do the analysis. she said, "i want you to turn this off because we don't need to bother those other people." -how did you feel when she said that? -i was mad because i don't like to be overruled. i'd been, you know, trying to act within my authority, and i'd been countermanded by my boss. -linda ham knew that nasa's history with the department of defense and using spy satellites was a little bit checkered. -there had been a previous mission where the landing parachute door came off on launch,

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Space Shuttle Columbia The Final Flight

-we don't have too much time 'cause launch is coming. 36 or 37 days to launch, and it's starting to get exciting. -why is it exciting? -what do you mean, why is it exciting? we're going to space. well, for the first time, at least, for us. for me, it's exciting. -this was an amazing, amazing opportunity. there were a lot of israeli fighter pilots that could have been chosen to take this role. but it was my father that was chosen to be the first israeli astronaut. ♪

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Space Shuttle Columbia The Final Flight

-the night before landing, we went out to dinner, and i was still concerned. "we really don't know the damage yet. it could be bad." -that's all we talked about -- the landing the next morning and how things had gone so badly the last two weeks. -i was recounting all of the pushback that we were getting from management -- two weeks of just utter frustration and anger. -we talked a lot about the worst-case scenario. -if they're having trouble with the wing, it would be during entry, when the shuttle and the astronauts are coming on that hot entry, high-speed hot entry, into the earth's atmosphere and they're going to attempt a landing. ♪ ♪

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Space Shuttle Columbia The Final Flight

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.

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Space Shuttle Columbia The Final Flight

-i was desperately waiting for my mom to come back. the thing i was most excited about was just holding her again and talking to her. -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.

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Space Shuttle Columbia The Final Flight

everything was proceeding normally that day. -the big thing that i remember really paying attention to shortly before landing was the weather. -flight controllers are currently monitoring the fog that has limited visibility but is dissipating. -because, obviously, it is just critical to have decent visibility, 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.

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Space Shuttle Columbia The Final Flight

-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 what looks like a streaking meteor. it's actually the space shuttle columbia coming back. we're watching it. landing about 15 minutes away. ♪ -we've 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.

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Space Shuttle Columbia The Final Flight

♪ -the console that i was at, we had an off-duty flight director who called our console and said, "hey. i'm watching the landing on tv, and they're showing this debris in the sky." ♪ ♪ that's when we realized it really was bad. ♪ -we're going to suspend our normal format right now, because we've got some breaking news. this is the space shuttle columbia, on its way to a scheduled landing this morning. but then we began to see this.

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