Columbia disaster: Evidence tells the story of tragic ending to space mission

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  • čas přidán 8. 02. 2023
  • Space shuttle Columbia was 16 minutes away from landing in Florida. It never made it. Instead, what our WFAA cameras captured was the shuttle exploding.

Komentáře • 148

  • @_CatBug_
    @_CatBug_ Před rokem +72

    I still remember them asking citizens to turn in any found debris.

    • @SuperLordHawHaw
      @SuperLordHawHaw Před rokem +3

      I remember them warning people to avoid debris due to hydrazine contamination

    • @AndrewWhite6969
      @AndrewWhite6969 Před 7 měsíci +6

      @@SuperLordHawHawThat was their excuse lol to scare people away from keeping it

    • @Amongusking-ld2nh
      @Amongusking-ld2nh Před 4 měsíci +2

      ​@@AndrewWhite6969no its a real thing and very dangerous

    • @AndrewWhite6969
      @AndrewWhite6969 Před 4 měsíci +2

      @@Amongusking-ld2nh How do you know? You just take what other people say on faith.

    • @SomeWhereInNevada.
      @SomeWhereInNevada. Před 4 měsíci

      Conspiracy theories wont get you far mate. ​@@AndrewWhite6969

  • @nancydavis4618
    @nancydavis4618 Před měsícem +10

    Watching it break up on TV was very heartbreaking😩

  • @melaniezirixa1239
    @melaniezirixa1239 Před rokem +36

    And they are still finding pieces today. It's also what turned me away from becoming an astronaut.

    • @slime1592
      @slime1592 Před rokem +8

      Oh, I'm sorry. That's not the case now. The odds of something like that happening is high in a space shuttle program. There isn't one anymore. If you still have a chance, nothing should stop you from becoming an astronaut.

    • @randymillhouse791
      @randymillhouse791 Před 11 měsíci +16

      That and your GPA.

    • @InDiGoProPhEcY3
      @InDiGoProPhEcY3 Před 8 měsíci

      @@slime1592are you dense ? Lol

    • @AndrewWhite6969
      @AndrewWhite6969 Před 7 měsíci +4

      @@randymillhouse791lmao, you're mean. 😂

    • @unrealbot3027
      @unrealbot3027 Před 3 měsíci

      Yeah and the assassination of JFK turned me away from becoming the president

  • @climberis1
    @climberis1 Před rokem +39

    My mom ran into my bedroom and told me this happened because she knew the astronauts. One of my first memories

    • @kevinmccallum1892
      @kevinmccallum1892 Před 6 měsíci +3

      She know all of them I doubt it but ok keep using a disaster for your likes

    • @climberis1
      @climberis1 Před 6 měsíci +1

      @@kevinmccallum1892 you’re right. She only knew the teacher who lived down the street from us

    • @bilikinbear
      @bilikinbear Před 22 dny

      @climberis1 I think your thinking of the Challenger that blew up during take-off. It eas part of the teacher in space program. It happened 1986 whereas this one had austronauts from other countries.

  • @mr.naughtypants7069
    @mr.naughtypants7069 Před rokem +34

    Back then they showed on the news a astronaut helmet was found just sitting on the ground, totally burned, no lense, no paint, just burnt. It didn't end well for that crew, they burned to death.

    • @randymillhouse791
      @randymillhouse791 Před 11 měsíci +4

      Really? I thought they froze or drowned.

    • @user-sb3yv1fn6l
      @user-sb3yv1fn6l Před 10 měsíci +4

      ​@@randymillhouse791bruh they were burnt wdym drowned

    • @andyevans9967
      @andyevans9967 Před 9 měsíci +10

      Likely unconscious or dead because of the lack of oxygen at that height, or killed by kinetic forces first.

    • @westnblu
      @westnblu Před 6 měsíci +5

      ​@@randymillhouse791 drowned? I think u may be thinking of the Challenger disaster .

    • @randymillhouse791
      @randymillhouse791 Před 6 měsíci +6

      @@westnblu Was sarcasm your FIRST language?

  • @evg70grl
    @evg70grl Před měsícem +5

    RIP to the crew

  • @laurencordova7188
    @laurencordova7188 Před 11 měsíci +13

    rick husband was from my hometown our airport was renamed after him after his death

  • @ericgiebel498
    @ericgiebel498 Před 9 měsíci +15

    I can somewhat understand why so many wanted to keep the pieces they found, but myself would have wanted to give it up. Hey, if I found a gun or a body on the side of the road, I wouldn't even touch it!! Call those who will!!

  • @lydiawood2884
    @lydiawood2884 Před rokem +15

    Becoming an astronaut you know this could happen.

  • @techFPV5964
    @techFPV5964 Před měsícem +4

    The powers at be at NASA are to blame for the 7 lives lost that awful day. They were more concerned about their schedules than the astronauts lives. Linda Ham Colombia mission mgr and Roger Dittemore will always have blood on their hands.

  • @DragonLord721
    @DragonLord721 Před 5 měsíci +10

    Don't that FACT that they decided to wait until the Astronauts were preparing for return before they even mentioned it at all and when then Astronauts asked if they should go out and take a firsthand look, NASA said, "naaaa we think you'll be okay"... I'm sorry WHAT??? You "THINK" they will be okay. I know that one NASA worker begged to let him tell the Astronauts about it and he was warned/threatened not to do any such thing, ummm that gentleman later committed suicide.. How many NASA employees are spending the rest of their lives in prison (where they should be "in my opinion), I mean aren't they guilty of 7 murders?

    • @jeanluke39
      @jeanluke39 Před 2 měsíci

      Idiot

    • @ALACAZINGO
      @ALACAZINGO Před měsícem +1

      14 deaths, don’t forget 1986

    • @JimMac23
      @JimMac23 Před měsícem

      They didn't have the correct spacesuits for a spacewalk.

    • @DragonLord721
      @DragonLord721 Před měsícem

      @@JimMac23 No-one goes to the ISS that don't have the capability to do a walk. They even asked (once they were told, shortly before leaving the ISS) if they should go out to check and they were told "naaaa we think you'll be okay"... EDIT: That's right, my mistake, they did not visit the ISS on that mission, nevertheless the tragedy could have been avoided, control saw the issue as it happened and seeing how it was right away, I'm assuming they were well inside the abort window (not sure how all that works).. seems like just stupid little wrong decisions cause the worst... You know (I think I have this right) with the Challenger disaster, wasn't it the "O-ring" issue and they knew it was an issue so they added an additional O-ring in the design, I say, why not add 10 or 20 more or whatever but to just add 1 or 2, really?

  • @MartinaRuiz-lps53
    @MartinaRuiz-lps53 Před měsícem +1

    Hey Coy! We missed you today! Can we get a shout out to Mrs. Ruiz's 5th grade class at Lillian Schumacher Elementary School in Liberty, MO? We watch CNN10 every day. Keep shining and rise up!!!

  • @mikeoliver9433
    @mikeoliver9433 Před 15 dny

    "Exploading" reference around 1:15 into the video? Is that the most accurate term to use? I prefer "break up".

  • @user-tm8ld6hu6x
    @user-tm8ld6hu6x Před 19 dny

    I was living in Dallas area. Heard a boom, thought one of the kids had fallen out of their bunk beds. Nope. Ran outside, looked up in the sky, could see a long white plume overhead. Turned on the tv, realized it was the Columbia. They were finding pieces all over the place. Very sad.

  • @imtorrific
    @imtorrific Před měsícem

    I'm from East Texas and I think a few pieces were found near where I lived.

  • @sonnyburnett8725
    @sonnyburnett8725 Před 5 měsíci +13

    A rancher lady found the tape of the interior cockpit conversations that apparently showed it coming apart. There were reports of some things said before it ended. She decided to turn it over to NASA but you have to wonder if a copy was ever made.

    • @venus-uj1jp
      @venus-uj1jp Před 3 měsíci +2

      the last tape that was salvaged (or released to the public at least) was 2 mins till predicted landing and didnt show any breakage.
      Apparently there was another tape that wouldnt been the last moments, but was too damaged to work

    • @cd7071
      @cd7071 Před 2 měsíci +4

      @@venus-uj1jp two minutes? That’s nonsense. The shuttle broke apart over fifteen minutes before its scheduled landing, was still over 200,000 feet in the air and over a thousand miles away from the landing site.

    • @venus-uj1jp
      @venus-uj1jp Před 2 měsíci

      @@cd7071 hey idk man i just watched a documentary on bbc, your probs more educated than me.
      if you havent watched it tho i do reccomend it!

    • @JimMac23
      @JimMac23 Před měsícem

      @@cd7071 The last message from the crew was when they were over Texas before the shuttle came apart, and the landing was due in two minutes at Cape Canaveral in Florida.

    • @cd7071
      @cd7071 Před měsícem +1

      @@JimMac23 Huh? So you are saying they would have travelled from central Texas to FL in just two minutes, had they not broke apart? That’s ridiculous! The last message was at 8:59 and that was exact same time the shuttle first started coming apart. Within less than a minute it was completely destroyed. The landing in FL was not due until 9:16, about 16-17 mins later..

  • @user-uh4xz2gn4u
    @user-uh4xz2gn4u Před měsícem +4

    Theyre straight up lying

  • @1nigeriacelebrityedits.
    @1nigeriacelebrityedits. Před 8 měsíci +1

    So sad

  • @tashie2.077
    @tashie2.077 Před 8 měsíci +10

    I sleep walk when I get really stressed out and for some reason when the season changes from summer to fall. I used to do this to my mom all the time. Needless to say she was kinda creeped out by me. When I was younger I sleep walked into the kitchen and handed my mom the phone and told her it was for her, about 5 seconds later it started ringing and it was my grandma calling for my mom. Also once I was napping on the couch, apparently according to my mom I sat up and asked her what she was watching, when she told me she was watching the space shuttle land, I said to her “well it’s gonna explode” then laid back down and went back to sleep…she was watching the Columbia shuttle. All I remember was her frantically shaking me awake asking what made me say that!! After that she started calling me baby Edgar Casey and to this day she still brings it up and asks me what made me say that. Sometimes it’s embarrassing because I have to warn new partners that sometimes i get up and walk around and hold conversations but I’m still asleep and won’t remember anything we talked about.

    • @gypsylei777
      @gypsylei777 Před 2 měsíci

      this happened to me under entirely different circumstances

  • @LindaMerchant-bq2hp
    @LindaMerchant-bq2hp Před 4 měsíci +2

    On launch piece of insulated foam

  • @user-un1zs9iu4e
    @user-un1zs9iu4e Před 3 měsíci +1

    I SPENT 30 DAYS IN HEMPHILL TEXAS ON THE SHUTTLE RECOVERY...IT WAS AN HONOR TO HELP OUT..WE CAME FROM NORTH CENTRAL IDAHO..

  • @ollierobin
    @ollierobin Před 2 měsíci

    Where's the purple plasma impact? We all saw it live and that guy in SF got a pic of it on his Nikon (later collected by NASA). The shuttle didn't re-enter already on fire.

  • @DARK_PARADISE94
    @DARK_PARADISE94 Před 10 měsíci +1

    I don't wanna see you go down like this again

  • @snydedon9636
    @snydedon9636 Před měsícem

    Such a sad day.

  • @buckynance
    @buckynance Před 4 měsíci +1

    I had come home from Lubbock that weekend to my parents house in Fort Worth. I was sleeping in the back Rec room of their house and was just kind of laying there half awake when all the windows in the house shook and rattled a couple of times. I really didn't think much about it because they had a lot of loose windows and I thought that a door had slammed. Turns out, it was a sonic boom from debris going overhead.

  • @sarawilder2718
    @sarawilder2718 Před 5 měsíci +3

    My question is this. Had they stayed in space and considered the hole it made was serious, could they have fixed it and made it back safely??? Can anyone answer that!?

    • @19AnaLaura97
      @19AnaLaura97 Před 5 měsíci

      I read this on Wikipedia "Before reentry, NASA managers had limited the investigation, reasoning that the crew could not have fixed the problem if it had been confirmed." No idea if that was really the case or just their speculation

    • @jamesrobert4106
      @jamesrobert4106 Před 4 měsíci +2

      Allegedly there was an offer of imaging technology from the military which could have clearly assessed the damage, allowing a rescue mission from a second shuttle being sent up.
      NASA refused help from the military.

    • @JimMac23
      @JimMac23 Před měsícem

      It was a big hole and they didn't have the materials to fix it. A rescue shuttle would have to be sent up to rescue the astronauts.

  • @mamakiddos4270
    @mamakiddos4270 Před měsícem +1

    Rest in peace all 7 astronauts

  • @jodavey
    @jodavey Před rokem +9

    But minutes later they would all be outside

  • @babebgtv5429
    @babebgtv5429 Před 2 dny

    Me: Torch lady you can't leave me.
    Torch lady: I won't, son! I never... Me: NOOOOO

  • @damionrowe9763
    @damionrowe9763 Před 4 měsíci

    💔

  • @TanzanianRoots
    @TanzanianRoots Před rokem +10

    Somebody saw that camera footage to the end. Must have been horrible.

    • @meganoob12
      @meganoob12 Před 11 měsíci +5

      no, the entire footage can be found here on youtube. it cuts out before the shuttle breaks apart

  • @DaeguDown
    @DaeguDown Před rokem +15

    The sonic boom from the shuttle when it exploded shook windows on buildings on the ground. My dad was at a Starbucks and heard it.

    • @randymillhouse791
      @randymillhouse791 Před 11 měsíci +14

      Sorry to hear that your Dad was at a Starbucks. My condolences.

    • @AndrewWhite6969
      @AndrewWhite6969 Před 7 měsíci +2

      Why would the shuttle have generated a sonic boom the moment it disintegrated? Sonic booms occur when an object exceeds the speed of sound.

    • @kevinmccallum1892
      @kevinmccallum1892 Před 6 měsíci +2

      This guy actually trying to garner attention and likes from a disaster but can’t even tell a proper lie wow just wow 2023 in a nutshell folks

    • @bcdieselsofficial
      @bcdieselsofficial Před 2 měsíci

      @@randymillhouse791🤣🤣🤣 good one!

    • @migomigo2595
      @migomigo2595 Před 17 dny

      Liar

  • @christopherwaits7852
    @christopherwaits7852 Před měsícem +2

    Except it didn’t explode…

    • @bigdaddytrips6197
      @bigdaddytrips6197 Před měsícem +1

      The military planted explosives in the shuttle just in case the astronauts don't want to go along with the plan 😉

  • @retroplank
    @retroplank Před rokem +5

    2003??? Thought that was in the 80’s

    • @joekickass2728
      @joekickass2728 Před rokem +21

      Challanger is the one that blew up on take off in the 80's. Columbia is what broke up over Texas in 2000's. I was thirteen years old. Went outside that morning and saw it happen in real time.

    • @retroplank
      @retroplank Před rokem +7

      @@joekickass2728 ohhhh what a horrible thing that you had to see it .. wow! And yea I was thinking of the teacher that died, you are right

    • @vasiovasio
      @vasiovasio Před rokem +1

      Times flies so, so fast these days!

    • @leehill9922
      @leehill9922 Před rokem +1

      Wrong Shuttle disaster.

    • @retroplank
      @retroplank Před rokem +3

      @@leehill9922 I guess when you get old, you start to get the decades mixed up😌

  • @moviequeen5101
    @moviequeen5101 Před měsícem

    I wanted go to space until I saw this

  • @alexandrastefanski2224
    @alexandrastefanski2224 Před 8 měsíci

    Learn about the shuttle s too so sad if they known what happened before could had save it or put one up there too

  • @GH-oi2jf
    @GH-oi2jf Před měsícem

    It was not an explosion.

  • @SuperLordHawHaw
    @SuperLordHawHaw Před rokem +3

    Amazing people would keep parts like a bunch of profiteerers

    • @randymillhouse791
      @randymillhouse791 Před 11 měsíci

      Americans.

    • @mikemartin5749
      @mikemartin5749 Před 11 měsíci +1

      How does a person profit from keeping something?

    • @randymillhouse791
      @randymillhouse791 Před 11 měsíci

      @@mikemartin5749 Ask Document Hoarding Trump.

    • @mikemartin5749
      @mikemartin5749 Před 11 měsíci

      @@randymillhouse791 Profit is the result of expense vs. revenue. 1. Is Trump spending anything with regard to those documents? 2. Can he generate any revenue just by keeping them?

    • @kevinmccallum1892
      @kevinmccallum1892 Před 6 měsíci

      @mikemartin5749 We just not gonna mention all the documents found at the several locations belonging to Biden?!

  • @juliegraham5033
    @juliegraham5033 Před 13 dny

    Mission control knew there was the possibility it would happen, they never told the crew. You can see the tension on their faces . Blaming it on the fact there was an israeli astronaut in this video makes me sick to my stomach.

  • @randymillhouse791
    @randymillhouse791 Před 11 měsíci +5

    "It's easy to love a Subaru!"
    Yeah, a car commercial shown before the Shuttle being blown to bits. VERY AMERICAN!

    • @meganoob12
      @meganoob12 Před 11 měsíci

      It's also kinda ironic because Subaru is the japanese name of a specific cluster of stars (hence the logo)

    • @Chris-ct3gc
      @Chris-ct3gc Před 3 měsíci +1

      @@meganoob12 Which is irony even more because we dropped a few nukes on them and also blew them to bits. It's possible they bought the advertising space on purpose. You never know.

  • @neodynamite
    @neodynamite Před měsícem +3

    Space Shuttle Columbia didn’t “explode.” Clueless media talking heads.

  • @marcel_tha_prince4943
    @marcel_tha_prince4943 Před měsícem

    Islamaphobia during this is crazy…

  • @mariomenendez8962
    @mariomenendez8962 Před rokem

    🤔🤔🤔

  • @sam-fc9ky
    @sam-fc9ky Před rokem +3

    according to utube all alive and well

    • @trevorsimpkins3142
      @trevorsimpkins3142 Před rokem +1

      That asinine conspiracy theory is about a completely different mission derp.

  • @cjkyricos
    @cjkyricos Před 6 měsíci

    As soon a crew lost contact, there is a close-up video of Columbia, full of holes, peices missing and decommisioned before re-entry. That video is now missing from the internet. I think it is relevant that is was flying in prohibited air-space, attempting to cross a polar orbit it knew it wasnt supposed to.

    • @trevorsimpkins3142
      @trevorsimpkins3142 Před 6 měsíci +2

      That was made up for a show that reenacted the breakup. There's no real close up views.

    • @bigdaddytrips6197
      @bigdaddytrips6197 Před měsícem

      That was a fake .

    • @cjkyricos
      @cjkyricos Před 27 dny

      @@trevorsimpkins3142 You are dreaming. The movie Sandra Bullock stared in came years after

  • @mohamed1978freedom
    @mohamed1978freedom Před 19 dny

    Nice view 😂

  • @bigdaddytrips6197
    @bigdaddytrips6197 Před měsícem

    The military detonated and blew up the shuttle because the astronauts saw something up there that they weren't supposed to see .

  • @RobinOfTheWest
    @RobinOfTheWest Před 2 měsíci

    Seconds before Columbia .disintegrated. it flew within ~300 miles of a HAARP site in Colorado (@ +40° 10' 54.00", -104° 43' 30.00").

  • @bigjimtruth6957
    @bigjimtruth6957 Před rokem +2

    Evidence tells the story that no one hurt no one died sry really really sry

    • @JimMac23
      @JimMac23 Před měsícem

      No evidence exists for that. You are dishonoring the memory of dead heroes.

  • @markoliver4194
    @markoliver4194 Před rokem +7

    Democrats fault

    • @JT_8283
      @JT_8283 Před rokem

      Actually it was trumps fault according to the democrats

    • @starmanxvi
      @starmanxvi Před 4 měsíci +4

      For a piece of insulation foam hitting a carbon-carbon heat shield? I didn't even know american politicians were sophisticated enough to do that.

    • @tiffanyt9329
      @tiffanyt9329 Před 4 měsíci +1

      George Bush was president when it happen.

    • @andrzejpaterek
      @andrzejpaterek Před 2 měsíci

      No. Russians fault!

  • @seanbooth1408
    @seanbooth1408 Před rokem +2

    12 April 1981 - not 2003

    • @a.k.3659
      @a.k.3659 Před rokem +8

      On February 1, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere over Texas and Louisiana, killing all seven astronauts on board. It was the second Space Shuttle mission to end in disaster, after the loss of Challenger and crew in 1986.

    • @andreamaphies9028
      @andreamaphies9028 Před rokem +6

      Except no. That is a COMPLETELY DIFFERENT event...

    • @InDiGoProPhEcY3
      @InDiGoProPhEcY3 Před 8 měsíci +2

      It definitely was 2003

    • @starmanxvi
      @starmanxvi Před 4 měsíci

      That was Columbia's first flight, not its last.

    • @peteparry9730
      @peteparry9730 Před 4 měsíci +1

      WOW! If you don't know, DON'T POST!! 1981 was Columbia's first flight. The Challenger disaster was in 1986 and that was BEFORE the Columbia burnt up on re-entry.

  • @PriySharma_Chup_be_bhadwe.
    @PriySharma_Chup_be_bhadwe. Před 4 měsíci +1

    Safed jhoot... White lie.. 👀👀💀🦢✌👈👀

    • @JimMac23
      @JimMac23 Před měsícem +1

      What the heck are you rambling about?