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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...

from space shuttle columbia as columbia continues to orbit the earth at an altitude of about 150 statute miles. columbia, houston, laurel, you're loud and clear on air to ground one. -the second day, i drive in to work kind of euphoric because another launch, another successful launch. you know, the flight director's office and the mission control center in houston is working with them. they're -- everything's good. i walked into the analysis lab to start reviewing film from the launch. we started the film at the beginning. [ rockets roaring ] we're watching this liftoff. you see the...

-oh, is that it? -there it is! -that's it right there. there it is. -yeah, i see it. i saw it. -there it is. oh, it's cool. -yeah. >> oh, is that it? there it is. there it is i see. i heard is always cool that is cool. >> check, that out it's gotten really what the heck is that are no wow looking into chunks coming off yeah. >> flipping all over the place. >> oh, yeah still see if losing it it was a saturday morning. >> 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 br...

-for the second time in nasa's history, a space shuttle has been lost along with its entire crew. once again, we are asking ourselves, how could this have happened? -do you have any idea how big that piece of foam was that came off? -we'd heard some reports that during launch there had been some concerns that some debris hit the wing. is that true and is that any cause of concern and that could have caused today's problems? -it is true. it was judged that, erm , that event did not represent a safety concern. -this happened under my watch, but i didn't have the answers. in every publi...