Nacogdoches; the day the sky fell Part I - Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107
Nacogdoches - My Home Town; the day the sky fell Part I
Part I of the feature documentary about the Space Shuttle Columbia breaking up over East Texas and how the city, county, and Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas came together to lead the country for 13 days to coordinate the recovery of Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew.
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Featuring the City of Nacogdoches, the County of Nacogdoches, Stephen F. Austin State University, Jaimie Wolfe, Marilyn Stewart, Dorene Schuyler, Ruth Ann Peterson, Eiriel, Crystal Ball, John Allen, Jeff Williams, Tony Jasso, Peggy Jasso, Steve Johnson, Tommy Ellison, Mike Kelly, Greg Sowell, Sheriff Thomas Kerss, Judge Sue Kennedy, Dr. James Kroll, and Space Shuttle Columbia debris and artifacts.
Produced by Annie Carr, Dr. Barbara Carr, and Meg Beatty.
Created, Directed, and Edited by Annie Carr. Original Music by Meg Beatty.
Expressed permissions: ABC affiliate broadcasted news video & graphics content, including identity bug through KTRE -- Lufkin, Nacogdoches an ABC affiliate. 911 audio through Nacogdoches Police Department. Home video provided by Peggy Jasso. Pope-Maddox broadcasted airport video through KTRE. Broadcast Video recorded LIVE by Christina Dewitt. Shuttle Debris photographs provided by Robert Hurst from the Emergency Management photo collection -- including photographs by Hardy Meredith. NASA images through NASA image exchange.
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Nacogdoches; the day the sky fell Part 2 - Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107
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Nacogdoches - My Home Town; the day the sky fell Part II
Part II of the feature documentary about the Space Shuttle Columbia breaking up over East Texas and how the city, county, and Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas came together to lead the country for 13 days to coordinate the recovery of Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew.
Featuring the City of Nacogdoches, the County of Nacogdoches, Stephen F. Austin State University, Dr. James Kroll, P.R. Blackwell, Jeff Williams, Bill Gardner, Tread Riggs, Greg Fuselier, Tony Jasso, Peggy Jasso, Nacogdoches County Citizens, Aubrey Hooper, Christina Dewitt, Ben Taylor, David Quinn, Renee Lawson, Meghan Vaughan, Cindy Sestak, Kari Schuyler -- Wright, Vicky Schuyler -- Fears, Dorene Schuyler, Steve Johnson, and Space Shuttle Columbia debris and artifacts.
Produced by Annie Carr, Dr. Barbara Carr, and Meg Beatty.
Created, Directed, and Edited by Annie Carr. Original Music by Meg Beatty.
Expressed permissions: ABC affiliate broadcasted news video & graphics content, including identity bug through KTRE -- Lufkin, Nacogdoches an ABC affiliate. Home video provided by Peggy Jasso. Broadcast Video recorded LIVE by Christina Dewitt. Shuttle Debris photographs provided by Robert Hurst from the Emergency Management photo collection - including photographs by Hardy Meredith. B24 Liberator photo permission from SFASU East Texas Research Center, NASA images through NASA image exchange. Broadcast LIVE Shuttle video by Dan McKnew ASKADAN.
All Rights Reserved - Durango Digital Entertainment. Friendly State Studios aka FriendlyState is a DBA for Durango Digital Entertainment Group. Nacogdoches - My Home Town; the day the sky fell Copyright 2003-2016
Search for debris continues, shuttle nose cone found
1. Sun visible through trees, helicopter in silhouette
2. Camera crews, pan to white material wrapped over large piece of shuttle nose cone
3. Wide of wrapped nose cone
4. Hole in ground from impact of nose cone
5. Mid of wrapped nose cone and camera crews
6. Close up of plastic wrapping
7. Mid of nose cone by impact hole
8. Close up of plastic wrapped around nose cone
9. White debris in leaves which appears to be plastic foam, pulls out to show arm placing orange flag near evidence
10. US Forest Service officer wrapping yellow crime scene tape around area
11. Orange flag in ground, zooms to white plastic foam substance and leaves
12. Forest Service officer brings another orange flag and plants it in the ground near piece of debris
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Jimmy Sparks, Searcher:
(There's) no telling what we'll find. Let me get her to flag that one.
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Nathan Ener, Searcher:
That day, we found that round ring, well then some more searchers come over there and started finding just a whole line, everything in a line. Pieces and bricks, so I just got to looking across the woods and, the bodies was found about two miles that-a-way. All the big pieces were in a row. There's a round place there, where I hunt at, was in the row, so, I says I better go over there and look and that's where a pressed mud whole was at that had the windows down in it. So, like I say, 50 yards right through that briar patch is where it hit and all around the shuttle was probably six foot of stuff about that deep insulation.
(Q: So you were finding stuff all around)
Everywhere.
14. Wide of sun, tilts down to ground to show location of nose cone
STORYLINE:
NASA officials and a crew from the Environmental Protection Agency began retrieving the shuttle Columbia's nose cone debris late on Tuesday from a heavily wooded section of underbrush near Hemphill, Texas.
The cone was partially buried in a hole about 20 feet (6 metres) across.
The nose section, one of the largest and most recognisable parts found so far, could provide insight into how the shuttle disintegrated over Texas on Saturday, killing all seven astronauts.
On Sunday, a search party of about 300 people from the small community of Hemphill search the area but came up empty handed.
Hemphill, a town of about 1,200 people has become a focus of the
search.
On Monday, a local hunter described how he came across the nose cone section as part of a trail of debris scattered across the area.
In a pattern scattered out from the nose cone, pieces of what appear to be heat-protection tiles were being marked with flags by US Forest Service personnel on Tuesday morning.
The nose section will be taken to Nacogdoches, Texas, where debris collected from across a vast stretch of countryside is being taken for examination.
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Debris recovery continues, reaction, Bush attends church
(2 Feb 2003)
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Houston, Texas
1. Entrance to Johnson Space Center
2. Close up sign
3. Mid shot, sunrise
4. Various signs, flags, flowers and cards at makeshift memorial
5. Close up candles
6. Close up sign
7. Close up sign to Israeli astronaut, reading Ilan Ramon. You're our hero. We'll never forget you. You and your family are in our hearts forever.
8. Close up Israeli flag
9. Close up Indian flag - Indian-born astronaut Kalpana Chawla was among the crew
10. Close up sign reading You will not be forgotten Columbia!
11. Pan from fence covered in home-made signs to memorial
12. Close up couple looking
13. Mid view American flag
14. Zoom into child putting flowers down
15. Close up man looking
16. Zoom into woman putting flowers down
17. Wide and close up of paper bags with candles inside, names of astronauts outside
APTN
Nacogdoches, Texas
18. Wide view of town centre, flag, flowers and police tape
19. Mid view debris on ground
20. Wide view of news conference
21. SOUNDBITE: (English) Judge Sue Kennedy, County Emergency Management Director:
Please do not commandeer any parts of the shuttle. NASA desperately wants to get those back and the F-B-I has informed us that if you take that, that is federal property and if they can identify that you have done so, they will pursue legal action and prosecute if necessary to get that back.
22. Close up debris
23. SOUNDBITE: (English) C.J. Johnson, from Oncelo, Iowa, Eyewitness:
We were just out fishing, heard a big boom. Looked up saw a you know the little streaking with a bright light on top of it, but never thought a whole lot about it until. You know we stayed out on the lake until almost three and come back in and when we come back into town all the flags were at half mast and you know we figured something was up but didn't know what it was. Turned the radio on and they weren't still saying much. Took probably 25 minutes - 30 minutes before we figured what had happened.
24. Flowers at scene
25. Wide view flowers and police tape
26. Mid view, flag at half mast
27. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sheriff Thomas Kerss (correct), Nacogdoches Sheriff:
Obviously the debris is scattered and it varies in size and nature. We have received reports of debris that ranges anywhere from pebble size up to seven or eight foot sections of fuselage or panel. There is components of circuitry boards, computer components as well as just mass debris that doesn't represent a whole lot of anything at this particular time.
28. Wide view of news conference
29. SOUNDBITE: (English) Judge Sue Kennedy, County Emergency Management Director:
The Texas Department of Health has reported that our emergency rooms have seen about 70 people, all of those are coming there because they touched something from the shuttle. We don't have any symptoms whatsoever that have come from those 70 people.
30. Pull back from debris to sign
31. Close up debris, police car driving past
32. Tilt down of church
33. Push in view as Pastor reads names of astronauts
34. Close up woman crying
35. Close up guard standing near flag
Pool
Houston, Texas
36. Various views of memorial service
Pool
Washington, DC
37. Pan view US President George Bush and First Lady Laura Bush leaving church
APTN
Washington, DC
38. Various views, newspaper headlines
STORYLINE:
A makeshift memorial has sprung up at the gates of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, in the American state of Texas as local residents grapple with the loss of the space shuttle Columbia.
Remnants of the Columbia remained strewn across the states of Texas and Louisiana on Sunday, as US authorities probed possible causes for the tragedy that served as another reminder of the nation's vulnerability.
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Columbia Tank Found on Lakebed
A drought in Texas lowered Lake Nacogdoches enough to uncover an aluminum tank from Columbia's STS-107 mission.
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Latest experimental results into possible cause of Columbia shuttle crash
(7 Jun 2003)
POOL
San Antonio, Texas, USA, June 6, 2003
1. Pan of investigators walking towards simulated shuttle wing
2. Foam being shot at simulated shuttle wing
3. Close up of damage from experiment
4. Broken foam piece on the ground
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) NASA executive, Scott Hubbard, Columbia Accident Investigator:
This is the first evidence we have that a piece of foam that approximates what we have in the accident can in fact crack and damage a piece of reinforced carbon panel.
6. Investigators inspecting damage from experiment
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) NASA executive Scott Hubbard, Columbia Accident Investigator:
You can see on the outside about a three-quarter inch crack, its all of the way through, so that clearly damages the integrity of the thermal barrier that is on the outside of the reinforced carbon material.
8. Shot of damage
9. Slow motion of foam shot at simulated wing
NASA TV
Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA, January, 2003
10. Nasa pictures of foam hitting shuttle wing during fatal flight
STORYLINE:
A chunk of foam fired at high speed cracked a space shuttle wing panel on Friday, offering what investigators said was the most powerful evidence yet to support the theory that a piece of the stiff, lightweight insulation doomed the shuttle Columbia.
The test, carried out at San Antonio in the US state of Texas, was the latest and most crucial in a series of firing experiments meant to simulate what investigators believe happened to the shuttle during liftoff.
During the test, the roughly 750 gram piece of foam cracked the reinforced carbon panel and knocked it out of alignment, creating a small gap between the panel and an adjoining seal.
This is the first evidence we have that a piece of foam that approximates what we have in the accident can in fact crack and damage a piece of reinforced carbon panel, said NASA executive Scott Hubbard, the member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board in charge of the testing.
He said more analysis would be needed to show that the damage would have allowed hot atmospheric gases to enter the wing during re-entry, as investigators believe happened to Columbia.
A suitcase-size piece of foam broke off the shuttle's big external fuel tank during the January liftoff.
Investigators suspect it damaged the leading edge of the left wing enough to cause the ship's destruction.
Seven astronauts died when the shuttle broke up over Texas on Feb. 1.
Friday's outdoor test was conducted at the independent Southwest Research Institute.
To recreate the conditions at Columbia's launch, the foam was fired at about 920 kilometers per hour (575 miles per hour) through the barrel of a nitrogen-pressurised gun normally used to shoot debris at airplane parts.
The key pieces tested were taken from another shuttle, Discovery.
Nearly 100 observers were on hand, including two shuttle astronauts.
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NASA Gives Graphic Details of Columbia Deaths
A new NASA report says that the seat restraints, suits and helmets of the doomed crew of the space shuttle Columbia didn't work well, leading to 'lethal trauma' as the out-of-control ship broke apart, killing all seven astronauts. (Dec. 30)
Latest reactions to shuttle crash and search for debris
ABC
Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana - February 3, 2003
1. Close-up FEMA truck pulling into Barksdale
2. Pan view aircraft from base
3. Pull back view of FEMA truck
4. Pan view of Lt. Col Larry Hahn walking to reporters
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Lt. Col. Harry Hahn, 2nd Bomb Wing:
We do and at this time are storing temporarily remains of the lost astronauts of the shuttle Columbia. Any further details on that I'll direct you to NASA. We are also receiving some of the debris here in one of our aircraft hangars to be held while they do an initial investigation, with our understanding that that debris will be forwarded to another time and place, once NASA makes that determination.
ABC
Shreveport, Louisiana - February 3, 2003
6. Aerial view of debris alongside road
7. Wide view, police at mall parking lot
8. Close-up police looking at (unseen) object on ground, cutaway police car
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Unidentified witness:
It basically looks like maybe a quarter size diametre, fleshy ... maybe a toe or it could be a finger. Some type of human tissue is what it looks like right now.
10. Wide and close-up view of scene
APTN
Houston, Texas - February 3, 2003
11. Various views of shuttle training facilit inside Johnson Space Center
12. Wide and close-up photographs of astronauts
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Eugene Cenan, Apollo Astronaut:
However long it takes I think the problem will be solved and I think our programme ... and its a universal space programme, now everybody is involved ... its going to point towards completion of the space station and of course I'm a dreamer, I want to go back to the moon and I want to see my grandkids go to Mars, so that is where I am headed longterm. And I think that will happen, not withstanding the problems of this accident, that will happen.
NASA TV
Houston, Texas - February 3, 2003
14. Wide view of news conference
15. SOUNDBITE: (English Ron Dittemore, :
For the loss of the single tile at the main landing gear door and for the other case, where you had more acreage damaged, 32 x 7 x 2 inch area, in both those cases the analysis predicted that even though you might have structural damage - and what I mean by structural damage is localized heating where you may have some affect on the basic structure in that area - even though you might have localized structural damage you would not have damage sufficient to cause a catostrophic event, not impact the flying qualities of the vehicle.
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Nacogdoches, Texas - February 3, 2003
16. Night views of debris being examined
17. Close-up police at scene
18. Pull back as debris is moved
19. Close-up as debris is placed in plastic bags
APTN
Hemphill, Texas - February 3, 2003
20. Close-up searchers feet
21. Pull back view, sign from bus - military getting off of bus
22. Close-up NASA adviser (black jacket) briefing troops
23. Various views, searchers getting ready to deploy
24. SOUNDBITE: (English)Brett Thompson, Air, Land Emergency response team:
Just happens to be the direction we are walking in, we'll be right next to this power line the whole time so we wont have to crawl through briars and other junk.
25. Close-up searchers feet
26. SOUNDBITE: (English)Stephen Parrish, Air, Land Emergency response team:
I don't think its really sunk in yet, no. I really feel it is a privilege ... and a lot of our searchers are more for individuals and this being for something that is more national ... I really feel its a privilege and honour to do that, so I enjoy it.
27. Wide view, searchers walking in line
28. Close-up man walking
29. Pan view, man with equipment on back
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Investigation continues following space shuttle disaster
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Houston, Texas - February 2, 2003
1. Wide shot, entrance to Johnson Space Center
2. Close up views people watching, crying, holding hands
3. Close up of woman praying with flowers in her hand
4. Close up man with cowboy hat, wipes eyes
5. Close up Dr Biswajit Kar looking at memorial
6. Close up woman and daughter praying
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Biswajit Kar, Houston Cardiologist:
I'm not here because Kalpuna Chawla was an Indian, I'm here because these seven were far above all others - they were the finest that we could produce.
8. Wide view, Grace Community Church
9. Various views memorial service
10. UPSOUND: (English) Senior pastor Steve Riggle:
It's incredible that one moment changes everything. It's the difference between tragedy and triumph. A mere 16 minutes from what would have been considered a great victory.
11. Wide and close up of audience watching video of Rick Husband
12. Close up woman crying
13. Wide view of church
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jonny White, Church-goer:
I mean any major tragedy is horrible, but when it is the people you live and work with it's ... horrible. It's just really sad and how it affects everybody's lives, it's just .. but anyway .. he is a Christian, or they ... I don't know all the astronauts, but I know Mike and I know Rick and I know their families and I know he is in heaven and so that is some consolation, but it's still tough when unexpected things happen.
APTN
Melrose, Texas - February 2, 2003
15. Tilt down view of debris in pond
16. Close up details of debris
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Nacogdoches, Texas - February 2, 2003
17. Pull back view of National Guard watching over piece of debris
18. Close up of debris
19. Pull back from gravestone, debris in ground
20. Various views, National Guard getting GPS (Global Positioning System) reading on debris stuck in ground at grave yard
21. Wide view of news conference
22. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sheriff Thomas Kerss, Nacogdoches County Sheriff:
What I am saying is that common sense tells us, as well as the people from NASA, there was radioactive material on board. There was also volatile fuel on board. The additive that has to be placed into the fuel to keep it from freezing up at temperatures in space has a potentially dangerous reaction point. So there are things that could exist. Those things could have burned up on re-entry as well, I'm not telling you there is a definite factor out there, but I am certainly not trying to dismiss the fact that caution should be used and I don't want our public thinking that it is ok to go out and handle this debris or even get in close proximity to it just for their own well being.
23. Wide view of news conference
STORYLINE:
Flowers, candles, teddy bears, flags and other items crowd the entrance to Johnson Space Center in Houston.
They're part of a growing shrine to the seven astronauts who died on Saturday when the space shuttle Columbia broke apart and burnt up over Texas.
By midday reporters said more than a hundred people at a time were gathering at the memorial for the astronauts.
While people cried and prayed, one man of Indian origin Dr Biswajit Kar said he was there not only to honour the memory of the Indian astronaut, but all seven.
Regularly astronauts Rick Husband and Michael Anderson worshiped at Grace Community Church. But this Sunday, some two-thousand worshipers turned out to remember Husband and Anderson as family, friends and fellow congregants.
Senior pastor Steve Riggle said Rick and Mike were men who fervently lived for God.
The calls are continuing to come in to the sheriff's office in Nacogdoches, Texas from people who've found pieces of the space shuttle Columbia.
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President Bush leads memorial service for shuttle astronauts
NASA TV
Johnson Space Centre, Houston, Texas - 4 February 2003
1. Close up President Bush and First Lady Laura Bush
2. Various views family members arrive at memorial
3. Pull back view of audience
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rabbi Harold Robinson, Captain, US Navy:
When we view our little planet from out in space, we learn the unity of all humanity here on earth. We are one as you are one, did you not teach us this from the very beginning, as we read and God created humanity in God's own image.
5. Push in view of flag at half mast
6. Close up photograph of crew
7. Pan view of President Bush walking up to podium
8. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, US President:
Their mission was almost complete and we lost them so close to home. The men and women of the Columbia had journeyed more than six million miles and were minutes away from arrival and reunion.
9. Close up family member crying
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W. Bush, US President:
Not only one moment of tragedy, but seven lives of great purpose and achievement. To leave behind earth and air and gravity is an ancient dream of humanity. For these seven it was a dream fulfilled. Each of these astronauts had the daring and discipline required of their calling. Each of them knew that great endeavours are inseparable from great risks.
11. Close up of family members
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sean O'Keefe, NASA Administrator:
Our duty now is to provide comfort to the bereaved families of the Columbia crew. The families who take so much pride in their families remarkable achievements. We also have a tremendous duty to honour the legacy of those fallen heroes by finding out what caused the loss of the Columbia and its crew, correct the problems that we find and to make sure that this never happens again.
13. Various close up views of family members
14. Top view of audience
15. Close up of shuttle pin on lapel of President Bush's jacket
16. Various views as bell is rung seven times
17. Close up of President Bush as aircraft flies overhead
18. Wide view of aircraft
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Johnson Space Centre, Houston, Texas - 4 February 2003
19. Pan of entrance to Johnson Space Centre, flowers
20. Close up photograph with flowers
21. Wide shot, two members of ZAKA (Hebrew acronym of Identification of Victims of Disaster), looking at flowers
22. SOUNDBITE: (English) Isaac, ZAKA member:
And finally the State of Israel had an astronaut that went up into space so, like everyone was happy in Israel you know actually the whole Israel was watching on TV how he went up and then what happened was a real tragedy.
23. Close up chaplain looking at flowers
STORYLINE:
Led by US President George W. Bush, thousands of grieving space workers and their families, friends, neighbours and political leaders paid a solemn farewell on Tuesday to the seven Columbia astronauts.
Describing it as a tragedy as well as a dream fulfilled, President Bush mourned those they had lost - so close to home.
The president bowed his head in grief and first lady Laura Bush wiped tears as the men and women who perished in the space shuttle disaster were individually remembered at the home of Mission Control.
The shuttle broke up Saturday as it was returning to Earth.
Sean O'Keefe, NASA's administrator, said the bond between those who go into space and those who coordinate space missions on the ground was incredibly strong and that everybody was grieving.
He said NASA had a tremendous duty to honour the legacy of its dead astronauts by finding out what caused the loss of the Columbia and to make sure it never happens again.
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President's address to the nation on the Columbia shuttle disaster
1. SOUNDBITE: (English) George W.Bush, US President
My fellow Americans, this day has brought terrible news and great sadness to our country. At nine o'clock this morning, mission control in Houston, lost contact with space shuttle Columbia. A short time later debris was seen falling from the skies above Texas. The Columbia is lost. There are no survivors. On board was a crew of seven, Colonel Rick Husband, Lieutenant Colonel Michael Anderson, Commander Laurel Clark, Captain David Brown, Commander William McCool, Dr Kalpana Chawla and Ilan Ramon, a colonel in the Israeli air force. These men and women assumed great risk in the service to all humanity in an age when space flight has come to seem almost routine, it is easy to overlook the dangers of travel by rocket and the difficulties of navigating the fierce outer atmosphere of the earth. These astronauts knew the dangers and they faced them willingly, knowing they had a high and noble purpose in life. Because of their courage and daring and idealism, we will miss them all the more. All Americans today are thinking as well of the families of these men and women who have been given this sudden shock and grief. You are not alone, our entire nation grieves with you and those you loved will always have the respect and gratitude of this country. The cause of which they died will continue. Mankind was led into the darkness beyond our world with the inspiration of discovery and the longing to understand. Our journey into space will go on. In the skies today we saw destruction and tragedy, yet further than we can see there is comfort and hope. In the words of the prophet Isaiah 'Lift your eyes and look to the heavens. Who created all these? He who brings out the starry hosts one by one and calls them each by name. Because of his great power and mighty strength not one of them is missing'. The same creator who named the stars also knows the names of the seven souls we mourn today. The crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to earth, yet we can pray that all are safely home. May God bless the grieving families and may God continue to bless America.
STORYLINE:
President George W. Bush sadly informed the American people on Saturday of the worst space tragedy in 17 years, saying The Columbia's lost. There are no survivors.
Bush said the loss of the space shuttle and its seven astronauts brought terrible news and great sadness to our country.
Addressing the nation from the Cabinet Room, Bush said, The Columbia is lost.
Before his remarks, he telephoned the families of the astronauts to console them.
These men and women assumed great risk in the service to all humanity, the president said. The astronauts knew the dangers and they faced them willingly, he said in brief remarks after returning to the White House from a weekend at Camp David, Maryland.
Flanked by two flags, Bush spoke slowly, his voice falling almost to a whisper at some points, his brows furrowed and his mouth downturned.
Earlier, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe, announcing the shuttle's demise, said he had spoken with Bush and the president had offered his full and immediate support to determine what had gone wrong and what to do next.
O'Keefe spoke at a news conference in Cape Canaveral, Florence.
Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge coordinated the government response.
Under an executive order signed recently by Bush, Ridge is the coordinator of all domestic incidents of this magnitude, even when terrorism is not suspected.
There is no information at this time that this was a terrorist incident, said Gordon Johndroe, spokesman for the Homeland Security Department.
He said, Obviously the investigation is just beginning, but that is the information we have now.
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Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy: WFAA's first breaking coverage
This is the first breaking coverage on the morning the space shuttle Columbia broke apart above Texas. February 1, 2003.
Jason Whitely looks back on the Columbia disaster 15 years later:
This Day In History: Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster
On February 1, 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon its return from space. Seven crew members were killed. CBSN looks back at the story in the series, The Way it Was.
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster occurred on February 1, 2003, when Columbia disintegrated over Texas and Louisiana as it reentered Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven crew members.
During the launch of STS-107, Columbia's 28th mission, a piece of foam insulation broke off from the Space Shuttle external tank and struck the left wing. Most previous shuttle launches had seen minor damage from foam shedding, but some engineers suspected that the damage to Columbia was more serious. NASA managers limited the investigation, reasoning that the crew could not have fixed the problem if it had been confirmed.
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Investigation continues following space shuttle disaster
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Houston, Texas - February 2, 2003
1. Wide shot, entrance to Johnson Space Center
2. Close up views people watching, crying, holding hands
3. Close up of woman praying with flowers in her hand
4. Close up man with cowboy hat, wipes eyes
5. Close up Dr Biswajit Kar looking at memorial
6. Close up woman and daughter praying
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dr Biswajit Kar, Houston Cardiologist:
I'm not here because Kalpuna Chawla was an Indian, I'm here because these seven were far above all others - they were the finest that we could produce.
8. Wide view, Grace Community Church
9. Various views memorial service
10. UPSOUND: (English) Senior pastor Steve Riggle:
It's incredible that one moment changes everything. It's the difference between tragedy and triumph. A mere 16 minutes from what would have been considered a great victory.
11. Wide and close up of audience watching video of Rick Husband
12. Close up woman crying
13. Wide view of church
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jonny White, Church-goer:
I mean any major tragedy is horrible, but when it is the people you live and work with it's ... horrible. It's just really sad and how it affects everybody's lives, it's just .. but anyway .. he is a Christian, or they ... I don't know all the astronauts, but I know Mike and I know Rick and I know their families and I know he is in heaven and so that is some consolation, but it's still tough when unexpected things happen.
APTN
Melrose, Texas - February 2, 2003
15. Tilt down view of debris in pond
16. Close up details of debris
APTN
Nacogdoches, Texas - February 2, 2003
17. Pull back view of National Guard watching over piece of debris
18. Close up of debris
19. Pull back from gravestone, debris in ground
20. Various views, National Guard getting GPS (Global Positioning System) reading on debris stuck in ground at grave yard
21. Wide view of news conference
22. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sheriff Thomas Kerss, Nacogdoches County Sheriff:
What I am saying is that common sense tells us, as well as the people from NASA, there was radioactive material on board. There was also volatile fuel on board. The additive that has to be placed into the fuel to keep it from freezing up at temperatures in space has a potentially dangerous reaction point. So there are things that could exist. Those things could have burned up on re-entry as well, I'm not telling you there is a definite factor out there, but I am certainly not trying to dismiss the fact that caution should be used and I don't want our public thinking that it is ok to go out and handle this debris or even get in close proximity to it just for their own well being.
23. Wide view of news conference
STORYLINE:
Flowers, candles, teddy bears, flags and other items crowd the entrance to Johnson Space Center in Houston.
They're part of a growing shrine to the seven astronauts who died on Saturday when the space shuttle Columbia broke apart and burnt up over Texas.
By midday reporters said more than a hundred people at a time were gathering at the memorial for the astronauts.
While people cried and prayed, one man of Indian origin Dr Biswajit Kar said he was there not only to honour the memory of the Indian astronaut, but all seven.
Regularly astronauts Rick Husband and Michael Anderson worshiped at Grace Community Church. But this Sunday, some two-thousand worshipers turned out to remember Husband and Anderson as family, friends and fellow congregants.
Senior pastor Steve Riggle said Rick and Mike were men who fervently lived for God.
The calls are continuing to come in to the sheriff's office in Nacogdoches, Texas from people who've found pieces of the space shuttle Columbia.
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Space Shuttle Columbia disaster | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:54 1 Crew
00:03:00 2 Debris strike during launch
00:07:52 3 Flight risk management
00:14:41 4 Re-entry timeline
00:25:32 5 Crew survivability aspects
00:27:57 6 Presidential response
00:28:41 7 Recovery of debris
00:32:18 7.1 Crew cabin video
00:33:05 8 Investigation
00:33:14 8.1 Initial investigation
00:34:36 8.2 Columbia Accident Investigation Board
00:37:30 8.3 Conclusions
00:40:23 8.4 Other contributing factors
00:41:01 8.5 Possible emergency procedures
00:44:10 9 Memorials
00:52:34 10 Effect on space programs
00:56:48 11 Sociocultural aftermath
00:56:58 11.1 Fears of terrorism
00:57:30 11.2 Purple streak image
00:57:59 11.3 2003 iArmageddon/i film hoax
00:58:35 11.4 Music
01:00:51 12 See also
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On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentering Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven crew members. The disaster was the second fatal accident in the Space Shuttle program after Space Shuttle Challenger, which broke apart and killed the seven-member crew 73 seconds after liftoff in 1986.
During the launch of STS-107, Columbia's 28th mission, a piece of foam insulation broke off from the Space Shuttle external tank and struck the left wing of the orbiter. A few previous shuttle launches had seen damage ranging from minor to nearly catastrophic from foam shedding, but some engineers suspected that the damage to Columbia was more serious. NASA managers limited the investigation, reasoning that the crew could not have fixed the problem if it had been confirmed. When Columbia re-entered the atmosphere of Earth, the damage allowed hot atmospheric gases to penetrate the heat shield and destroy the internal wing structure, which caused the spacecraft to become unstable and break apart.After the disaster, Space Shuttle flight operations were suspended for more than two years, as they had been after the Challenger disaster. Construction of the International Space Station (ISS) was put on hold; the station relied entirely on the Russian Roscosmos State Corporation for resupply for 29 months until Shuttle flights resumed with STS-114 and 41 months for crew rotation until STS-121.
Several technical and organizational changes were made, including adding a thorough on-orbit inspection to determine how well the shuttle's thermal protection system had endured the ascent, and keeping a designated rescue mission ready in case irreparable damage was found. Except for one final mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, subsequent shuttle missions were flown only to the ISS so that the crew could use it as a haven in case damage to the orbiter prevented safe reentry.
Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107, Cockpit footage just before the accident
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Lufkin police release video of deadly pursuit
(Video Credit: Lufkin Police Department)
According to LPD, around 11:30 a.m. LeEdward Hopkins, 43, of Houston and another man identified as Tony Mitchell, 42, of Houston, robbed First State Bank of Louise at gunpoint. The men fled the bank with an undisclosed amount of cash.
DPS received information that Hopkins was in the Lukin area, headed north on Loop 287 in a black Dodge Challenger R/T.
Police say officers attempted to stop a vehicle on Loop 287 at Old Moffett Road at about 7:10 p.m.
Hopkins drove onto U.S. 59 toward Nacogdoches. Police say speeds reached over 130 mph.
Once Hopkins reached the Woodland Hills Golf Course and veered off the road and came to stop in a tree line near the 12th hole. The car’s engine block caught fire, but it had been thrown from the vehicle.
Hopkins was killed on impact.
SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA disaster - WikiVidi Documentary
On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentering Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven crew members. The disaster was the second fatal accident in the Space Shuttle program after Space Shuttle Challenger, which broke apart and killed the seven-member crew 73 seconds after liftoff in 1986. During the launch of STS-107, Columbias 28th mission, a piece of foam insulation broke off from the Space Shuttle external tank and struck the left wing of the orbiter. A few previous shuttle launches had seen damage ranging from minor to major from foam shedding,, but some engineers suspected that the damage to Columbia was more serious. NASA managers limited the investigation, reasoning that the crew could not have fixed the problem if it had been confirmed. When Columbia re-entered the atmosphere of Earth, the damage allowed hot atmospheric gases to penetrate and destroy the internal wing structure, which caused the spacecraft to become unstable and break apart. After...
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