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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 member, even though it s my wife. -i remember a certain sense of relief like, it s almost over. she s almost back. -i didn t talk to laurel about the foam issue. that conference was for iain and laurel, and i was a bystander. -i knew she was going to come back. you know, i never had a question in my mind. -given the fact that you may have lost a little bit of tile during lift-off, i m wond ....
And as a 9-year-old, i didn t really understand what that meant. and so, in my mind, i was like, mom, like, what does that mean? what does that mean? i was waiting for someone to explain. but then it was just. everything just fell apart. [ voice breaking ] the shuttle wasn t coming home. dad wasn t coming home. sorry. -people waking up to this horrible news. -quite frankly, i turned and looked across a big, open, ploughed field. and there in fact is a piece of smoking wreckage. -this blackened material letting out white-hot smoke. -there s some rubber burning in our pasture. -they re reporting a piece of wreckage came through an apartment roof and started a fire. ....
People waking up to this horrible news. Quite frankly, i turned and looked across a big, open, ploughed field. And there in fact is a piece of smoking wreckage. This blackened material letting out whitehot smoke. Theres some Rubber Burning in our pasture. Theyre reporting a piece of wreckage came through an Apartment Roof and started a fire. Right now, nasa will be trying to make sense of what happened in the skies over texas. Searching for wreckage from the columbia shuttle, theyve already made hundreds of finds, from tiny scraps of metal to whole panels. And the tragic, but inevitable discovery of human remains. A spacecraft breaking up at 190,000 feet its something you couldnt, like, get out of your mind ....
History and and there s a problem here is the problem. and the highest they ve ever been, and corporations aren t hiring. and here is the problem. you want to know why? and here is lesson 101, juan, and what do you think of that. in one second. oh, please. and cooking, i smell rubber burning. (laughter) that s a rubber chicken in your pocket. and here is the thing, corporations aren t reinvesting back into the infrastructure because they don t trust this administration, they re not hiring. i see. and holding on to their dollar, that s a fact. let me get greg. another interesting fact january 2009, one millifewer construction jobs, shovel ready is shovel deady. juan, that s a rhyme. and you thought of that. more than the moon landing, ....
History and and there s a problem here is the problem. and the highest they ve ever been, and corporations aren t hiring. and here is the problem. you want to know why? and here is lesson 101, juan, and what do you think of that. in one second. oh, please. and cooking, i smell rubber burning. (laughter) that s a rubber chicken in your pocket. and here is the thing, corporations aren t reinvesting back into t infrastructure because they don t trust this administration, they re not hiring. i see. and holding on to their dollar, that s a fact. let me get greg. another interesting fact january 2009, one millifewer construction jobs, shovel ready is shovel deady. juan, that s a rhyme. and you thought of that. more than the moon landing, ....