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

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  • Опубліковано 8 лют 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.

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  • @_CatBug_
    @_CatBug_ Рік тому +61

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

    • @SuperLordHawHaw
      @SuperLordHawHaw Рік тому +3

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

    • @AndrewWhite6969
      @AndrewWhite6969 6 місяців тому +4

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

    • @Amongusking-ld2nh
      @Amongusking-ld2nh 3 місяці тому +2

      ​@@AndrewWhite6969no its a real thing and very dangerous

    • @AndrewWhite6969
      @AndrewWhite6969 3 місяці тому +2

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

    • @SomeWhereInNevada.
      @SomeWhereInNevada. 3 місяці тому

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

  • @ericgiebel498
    @ericgiebel498 8 місяців тому +13

    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!!

  • @nancydavis4618
    @nancydavis4618 29 днів тому +5

    Watching it break up on TV was very heartbreaking😩

  • @melaniezirixa1239
    @melaniezirixa1239 Рік тому +31

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

    • @slime1592
      @slime1592 Рік тому +7

      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 10 місяців тому +15

      That and your GPA.

    • @InDiGoProPhEcY3
      @InDiGoProPhEcY3 8 місяців тому

      @@slime1592are you dense ? Lol

    • @AndrewWhite6969
      @AndrewWhite6969 6 місяців тому +3

      @@randymillhouse791lmao, you're mean. 😂

    • @unrealbot3027
      @unrealbot3027 2 місяці тому

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

  • @mr.naughtypants7069
    @mr.naughtypants7069 Рік тому +29

    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 10 місяців тому +3

      Really? I thought they froze or drowned.

    • @user-sb3yv1fn6l
      @user-sb3yv1fn6l 9 місяців тому +4

      ​@@randymillhouse791bruh they were burnt wdym drowned

    • @andyevans9967
      @andyevans9967 8 місяців тому +8

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

    • @westnblu
      @westnblu 6 місяців тому +5

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

    • @randymillhouse791
      @randymillhouse791 5 місяців тому +6

      @@westnblu Was sarcasm your FIRST language?

  • @climberis1
    @climberis1 Рік тому +36

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

    • @kevinmccallum1892
      @kevinmccallum1892 5 місяців тому +2

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

    • @climberis1
      @climberis1 5 місяців тому +1

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

  • @laurencordova7188
    @laurencordova7188 11 місяців тому +10

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

  • @evg70grl
    @evg70grl 29 днів тому +3

    RIP to the crew

  • @lydiawood2884
    @lydiawood2884 11 місяців тому +14

    Becoming an astronaut you know this could happen.

  • @tashie2.077
    @tashie2.077 7 місяців тому +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 Місяць тому

      this happened to me under entirely different circumstances

  • @DragonLord721
    @DragonLord721 4 місяці тому +7

    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 Місяць тому

      Idiot

    • @ALACAZINGO
      @ALACAZINGO 29 днів тому

      14 deaths, don’t forget 1986

    • @JimMac23
      @JimMac23 14 днів тому

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

    • @DragonLord721
      @DragonLord721 13 днів тому

      @@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".

  • @user-uh4xz2gn4u
    @user-uh4xz2gn4u Місяць тому +3

    Theyre straight up lying

  • @sonnyburnett8725
    @sonnyburnett8725 4 місяці тому +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 3 місяці тому +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 Місяць тому +2

      @@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 Місяць тому

      @@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 14 днів тому

      @@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 13 днів тому

      @@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..

  • @MartinaRuiz-lps53
    @MartinaRuiz-lps53 27 днів тому

    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!!!

  • @1nigeriacelebrityedits.
    @1nigeriacelebrityedits. 7 місяців тому

    So sad

  • @torixie_
    @torixie_ 26 днів тому

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

  • @user-un1zs9iu4e
    @user-un1zs9iu4e 2 місяці тому

    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 Місяць тому

    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.

  • @LindaMerchant-bq2hp
    @LindaMerchant-bq2hp 3 місяці тому +1

    On launch piece of insulated foam

  • @snydedon9636
    @snydedon9636 20 днів тому

    Such a sad day.

  • @sarawilder2718
    @sarawilder2718 4 місяці тому +2

    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 4 місяці тому

      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 3 місяці тому +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 14 днів тому

      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.

  • @DaeguDown
    @DaeguDown Рік тому +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 10 місяців тому +13

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

    • @AndrewWhite6969
      @AndrewWhite6969 6 місяців тому +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 5 місяців тому +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 2 місяці тому

      @@randymillhouse791🤣🤣🤣 good one!

  • @bigdaddytrips6197
    @bigdaddytrips6197 6 днів тому

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

  • @jodavey
    @jodavey Рік тому +9

    But minutes later they would all be outside

  • @DARK_PARADISE94
    @DARK_PARADISE94 9 місяців тому +1

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

  • @mamakiddos4270
    @mamakiddos4270 10 днів тому

    Rest in peace all 7 astronauts

  • @damionrowe9763
    @damionrowe9763 4 місяці тому

    💔

  • @christopherwaits7852
    @christopherwaits7852 16 днів тому +2

    Except it didn’t explode…

    • @bigdaddytrips6197
      @bigdaddytrips6197 6 днів тому

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

  • @user-ky9jj3dz6j
    @user-ky9jj3dz6j 15 днів тому

    Unbelievable that they would think it was okay that they lost thermal tiles.

    • @JimMac23
      @JimMac23 14 днів тому

      They didn't know how much damage there was. The recovered left wing shows a hole the size of a basketball in the aluminum above the thermal tiles. That let in the heat from re entry, the wing began to melt, and that's when the thermal tiles began to fall off the wing.

  • @buckynance
    @buckynance 3 місяці тому +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.

  • @alexandrastefanski2224
    @alexandrastefanski2224 8 місяців тому

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

  • @TanzanianRoots
    @TanzanianRoots Рік тому +10

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

    • @meganoob12
      @meganoob12 10 місяців тому +5

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

  • @retroplank
    @retroplank Рік тому +5

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

    • @joekickass2728
      @joekickass2728 Рік тому +20

      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 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +1

      Times flies so, so fast these days!

    • @leehill9922
      @leehill9922 Рік тому +1

      Wrong Shuttle disaster.

    • @retroplank
      @retroplank Рік тому +3

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

  • @moviequeen5101
    @moviequeen5101 23 дні тому

    I wanted go to space until I saw this

  • @techFPV5964
    @techFPV5964 29 днів тому

    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.

  • @neodynamite
    @neodynamite Місяць тому +3

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

  • @SuperLordHawHaw
    @SuperLordHawHaw Рік тому +3

    Amazing people would keep parts like a bunch of profiteerers

    • @randymillhouse791
      @randymillhouse791 10 місяців тому

      Americans.

    • @mikemartin5749
      @mikemartin5749 10 місяців тому +1

      How does a person profit from keeping something?

    • @randymillhouse791
      @randymillhouse791 10 місяців тому

      @@mikemartin5749 Ask Document Hoarding Trump.

    • @mikemartin5749
      @mikemartin5749 10 місяців тому

      @@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 5 місяців тому

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

  • @GH-oi2jf
    @GH-oi2jf Місяць тому

    It was not an explosion.

  • @RobinOfTheWest
    @RobinOfTheWest Місяць тому

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

  • @marcel_tha_prince4943
    @marcel_tha_prince4943 14 днів тому

    Islamaphobia during this is crazy…

  • @randymillhouse791
    @randymillhouse791 10 місяців тому +5

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

    • @meganoob12
      @meganoob12 10 місяців тому

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

    • @Chris-ct3gc
      @Chris-ct3gc 3 місяці тому +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.

  • @sam-fc9ky
    @sam-fc9ky Рік тому +3

    according to utube all alive and well

    • @trevorsimpkins3142
      @trevorsimpkins3142 Рік тому +1

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

  • @mariomenendez8962
    @mariomenendez8962 Рік тому

    🤔🤔🤔

  • @cjkyricos
    @cjkyricos 5 місяців тому

    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 5 місяців тому +2

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

    • @bigdaddytrips6197
      @bigdaddytrips6197 6 днів тому

      That was a fake .

    • @cjkyricos
      @cjkyricos 2 дні тому

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

  • @bigjimtruth6957
    @bigjimtruth6957 Рік тому +2

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

    • @JimMac23
      @JimMac23 14 днів тому

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

  • @markoliver4194
    @markoliver4194 Рік тому +7

    Democrats fault

    • @JT_8283
      @JT_8283 Рік тому

      Actually it was trumps fault according to the democrats

    • @starmanxvi
      @starmanxvi 3 місяці тому +3

      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 3 місяці тому +1

      George Bush was president when it happen.

    • @andrzejpaterek
      @andrzejpaterek 2 місяці тому

      No. Russians fault!

  • @seanbooth1408
    @seanbooth1408 Рік тому +2

    12 April 1981 - not 2003

    • @a.k.3659
      @a.k.3659 Рік тому +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 Рік тому +6

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

    • @InDiGoProPhEcY3
      @InDiGoProPhEcY3 8 місяців тому +2

      It definitely was 2003

    • @starmanxvi
      @starmanxvi 3 місяці тому

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

    • @peteparry9730
      @peteparry9730 3 місяці тому +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. 4 місяці тому +1

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

    • @JimMac23
      @JimMac23 14 днів тому +1

      What the heck are you rambling about?