Une fusée de 68 TONNES et son équipage détruits à cause... d’un peu de mousse.
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Published 2023-12-11
No one really realized it but sixteen days earlier during takeoff, a piece of the shuttle had broken off and seriously damaged the aircraft.
It is the tragic fate of an extraordinary rocket that we are going to tell you about.
How could a few grams of foam lead to the disintegration of this 68-ton space engine?
Why could this accident not have been anticipated?
Why was no rescue mission planned?
Thanks to the technical expertise of the greatest astronauts and the federal agents responsible for the investigation, but also thanks to the testimonies of the families, we will decipher every second of this disaster.
We will try to understand how the Columbia shuttle, considered the flagship of American aerospace, could have transformed into a ball of fire out of control...
First broadcast:
A documentary by François Tribolet
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All Comments (21)
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Suits didn't listen to the engineers. That's why we lost Challenger and Columbia. Gross incompetent negligence from bureaucrats.
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NASA was advised that it might be wise to divert to make a pass by a satellite to get some images of the impact area to see if there was damage and they opted not to do that.
NASA was advised to postpone the launch of Challenger because the temperature had dropped to freezing and the o-rings would fail. They opted to pressure MortonThiokol to override their engineers who built the boosters and was pushing to postpone the launch because the cold would prevent the rubber o-rings from sealing the joints between the booster segments. Two Shuttles and two crews vanished for negligence -
RIP
Rick Husband
(1957-2003)
William C. McCool
(1961-2003)
Michael P. Anderson
(1959-2003)
Kalpana Chawla
(1962-2003)
David M. Brown
(1956-2003)
Laurel Clark
(1961-2003)
and
Ilan Ramon
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Rest in peace, brave crew, very sad for the families.🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹.
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Astronaut Kalpana Chawla’s smile makes me sad every time I see her 😢 RIP
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Whenever a government agency says"dont worry" then you know its time to worry
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I was in Dallas the morning the Columbia broke up. I was in the parking lot of Flight Safety International at the DFW Airport. I was late to ground school class as I stood there watching this machine break apart. I will never forget that horrible day.
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Idk how the algorithm gave me this weird french/english documentary but I'm here till the end now.
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53:45 On that day in 2003, i was driving to work on FM 1960 in NW Houston. It was a beautiful bluebird day! At approximately 9am, something made me look off to my left... and I saw what appeared to be silver glitter falling from the sky.... a few minutes later, i walked into the workplace, and found everyone looking at a tv.... news flash about the shuttle! It was then that I knew what I had seen! OMG! tragic moments I will never forget!!! 😢
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Thank you for using the footage that I shot of Columbia in this documentary.
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What on excellent documentary. Very impressed with all the details and the honesty of those people on the ground.
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I remember that morning. I’d had to leave my car in a public lot overnight due to mechanical trouble. I narrowly avoided having it towed. Once I finally had it at the garage, I checked it in and crashed in the waiting room. I rested my eyes for a few minutes, then opened them to see the television playing. Columbia’s crew picture covered the entire screen and in that moment, I knew something had happened. I later had to max out my credit card to pay for the repairs, but it didn’t matter. I was still here. Those astronauts were gone. It was a terrible day.
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300 million dollars to pick up debris but wouldn't spend a couple of million to take a photo from a military satellite that without NASA most likely wouldn't be up there.
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I bought my first semi 3 months before this happened. The night before this my engine threw 2 rods out of the block and I ended up in Columbia, Mo at a hotel. I remember waking up the next morning and turned on the TV to the news and thought "Why are they showing footage of the Challenger?" then seen that it was Columbia. I, like most people, was in shock that it happened again. R.I.P. to the crew and peace for their families.
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"An accident some years previous..."??? What an odd way to describe the Challenger disaster.
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No one really wants to talk about it, but the more I hear about the last moments of Columbia, the more I'm convinced that the crew knew they were doomed and were definitely conscious and felt physical pain at the end, if only for a couple of seconds.
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Speed and velocity have so much power. A little piece of foam travelling hundreds of miles and hour can do so much damage. Same as when people think planes can just ditch in the water and be fine, at the speed the plane is travelling, hitting the water is like slamming into concrete. When the plane landed on the Hudson, it was a miracle landing, due to the captain’s skills.
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The most disgusting thing about all of this (outside of the obvious) is, in that letter from nasa to Columbia the person wrote, "Just one thing, it's not even worth mentioning, but, in case a reporter asks..". Like are you freaking serious. That is a someone trying to save face for nasa. Period. Disgusting.
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it's so stupid that something bad always has to happen before we can do something about it. I know that's how we learn, but when you think about it, it's sad to think this way
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I remember this so well. Tragic.
