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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 youre driven down there and youre 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, were 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

Those protect the vehicle from the highest level of heat, those 3,000 degree temperatures, so that you dont get metal melting. But we had never had any experience in breaking a panel. What was starting to join up was youve got Video Analysis that says the strike on the orbiter created a hole in the wing. And you can see that there had been some sort of penetration against the rcc panel. Hot gas had entered in, the shuttle had lost aerodynamic control and crashed. But i think the challenge for a lot of folks at nasa was believing that foam had done that. They would say Foam Cant Break reinforce...

And if you follow the logic, you begin to see pieces that are telling you a story. As we were progressing through the leftwing reconstruction, you can see these burned tiles, this reinforced carboncarbon, looks like its been burned in a way thats very different than everything else. All of that data pointed to a problem at Rcc Panel 8. Something very different happened in this location on the orbiter. And so, lets go see if we can understand what that was. Ok, so, as the vehicle is entering the atmosphere, these black tiles are protecting the structure, the aluminium of the vehicle, in highhea...

And subsequently impacted the orbiter left wing. Experts have reviewed the highspeed photography, and there is no concern for Rcc Or Tile damage. We have seen this same phenomenon on several other flights and theres absolutely no concern for entry. That is all for now it is a pleasure working with you every day. So, they saw something. Theyre taking care of it. This email was too short, too sweet, too easy. Okay. Good Morning And Welcome to the mmt. Day nine. Rodneys team presented their analysis. I wasnt presenting the results of our analysis

The mission aboard the Orbiter Columbia is 24 seven science marathon. In all there are more than 59 experiments my husband rick was the commander of the Space Shuttle Columbia there were my wildest dreams so i think id ever made an astronaut, much less mary one. Yeah. So he told me he said that he wanted since he was four years old, he wanted to be an astronaut. My name is Rick Husband im the commander vsts, one of seven. Were going to be fine. Uh, 16 day science mission. I was i think probably ten or 11 i knew it was a big Incharge Position and that he would be the leader of the team you thin...