Final radio transmissions chronicling the efforts of mission control as it became painfully aware of the destruction of the space shuttle columbia were released by nasa yesterday.
Sts 107 lock the doors.
This is actually part 2 of my video like this.
At 9 12 a m he instructed ground control officer bill foster to lock the doors a de facto admission that all hope was gone and ordered flight controllers not to leave the.
Lock the doors cain ordered initiating contingency procedures in mission control for the first time since the challenger disaster 17 years before.
The video footage from sts 107 s launch offered little indication of what if any damage the foam strike had caused save for a huge shower of particles.
It is a few minutes past 9 a m.
And then i am the lead flight director on sts 118.
It begins just as mission control starts to lose data and contact with the shuttle through when i changed the.