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re: 22 Years Ago Today - Space Shuttle Columbia Accident
Posted on 2/1/25 at 8:50 am to BamaSaint
Posted on 2/1/25 at 8:50 am to BamaSaint
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It's like this information is difficult to look up
No shite. I just took ten seconds and scrolled up in the calendar on my phone to verify that was a Saturday. Good Lord.
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Posted on 2/1/25 at 8:51 am to meeple
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On Saturday, February 1, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it re-entered 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.
Posted on 2/1/25 at 8:51 am to Lieutenant Dan
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100% am. I saw the curly headed lady and assumed it was teacher.
These events are etched into our memories, for whatever reason. They occurred so close together on the calendar.
Posted on 2/1/25 at 8:51 am to BamaSaint
Posted on 2/1/25 at 8:53 am to meeple
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These events are etched into our memories, for whatever reason. They occurred so close together on the calendar.
15 years apart is close?
This post was edited on 2/1/25 at 9:11 am
Posted on 2/1/25 at 8:55 am to meeple
Meteorologist Rob Perillo recorded video of the debris in the sky, and was all over various national news outlets that day.
Posted on 2/1/25 at 8:56 am to meeple
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They were practically like family with astronauts.
All 3 apollo 17 showed up to my grandpa's funeral. Probably should've been the 13 crew, considering the 3rd stage really saved their asses
Posted on 2/1/25 at 8:56 am to meeple
"Slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of God."
Posted on 2/1/25 at 8:59 am to meeple
Seen a lot of people talk about Challenger and Columbia, suggesting it was administrative negligence at NASA that doomed both crews. Apparently they filmed the launch and knew the wing was damaged. Some people say they could have spun up another shuttle and got it up there and transferred the crew to bring them home but instead NASA decided to roll the dice and pretend nothing happened on the launch. I don't know if that's accurate or not.
Posted on 2/1/25 at 8:59 am to 4x4tiger
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15 years is close?
As it appears on a calendar.
Challenger - January 28
Columbia - February 1.
Within a week of each other by day, so many people have memories of each occurring around the same time every year.
I was a very small child for Challenger so I don’t have as vivid of memories as some others. I was in the space program for Columbia so my memories are more prominent and at the forefront of, and have specific meaning to me.
Posted on 2/1/25 at 9:00 am to meeple
Woke up to several sonic booms, asked the wife if they were firing at Ft. Polk, she worked out there at that time. It was debris from the aircraft. Buddy of mine found some out in the woods scouting for turkeys.
Posted on 2/1/25 at 9:01 am to MoarKilometers
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All 3 apollo 17 showed up to my grandpa's funeral.
Who was your grandpa?
Posted on 2/1/25 at 9:03 am to meeple
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Who was your grandpa?
Chief engineer of the saturn iv-b...
Posted on 2/1/25 at 9:04 am to meeple
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Within a week of each other by day, so many people have memories of each occurring around the same time every year.
They didn't happen the same way. Everyone watched Challenger explode on TV. No one watched Columbia break up on TV. The only way anyone saw it is if they were under the re-entry path. CNN was doing re-entry coverage but it didn't become a story until the arrival time passed. It's not really possible to confuse them other than the names starting with a C. But then one happened in 86 and the other in 03.
Posted on 2/1/25 at 9:07 am to The Boat
They drained an area lake one year after the mishap. Was walking around the area that would be underwater and found some type of stainless-steel object that didn't look like anything that should be there. Forgot about the shuttle, probably a piece of the shuttle.
Posted on 2/1/25 at 9:12 am to meeple
I'm old enough to remember both the Challenger and Columbia accidents.
The Challenger coverage was much more intense and visceral, it happened in plain site and everyone knew what happened.
The Columbia coverage was far more murky, the early coverage couldn't quite figure out if it was just lost or off course or damaged or destroyed. Took awhile for them to basically definitively say it was destroyed.
The Challenger coverage was much more intense and visceral, it happened in plain site and everyone knew what happened.
The Columbia coverage was far more murky, the early coverage couldn't quite figure out if it was just lost or off course or damaged or destroyed. Took awhile for them to basically definitively say it was destroyed.
This post was edited on 2/1/25 at 7:36 pm
Posted on 2/1/25 at 9:15 am to Beessnax
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I was off work when it happened so definitely not Monday
Correct. I wasn't at work when I heard it.
Posted on 2/1/25 at 9:37 am to Bestbank Tiger
was getting ready to go to daughters tennis tourney in wichita falls. lived in ennis texas. boom was very loud and the windows in the house rattled. was on the front porch watching the debris go across the sky. i called my relatives north of beaumont and told them to be on the lookout for stuff falling out of the sky.
Posted on 2/1/25 at 9:45 am to meeple
I heard a sonic boom in Leesville = thought it was strange even tho Ft Polk was nearby, they had never had supersonic flights anywhere that I'd heard of.
As far as I know, the object that caused that sonic boom was never found - would have been between Leesville and DeRidder.
Very sad day.
As far as I know, the object that caused that sonic boom was never found - would have been between Leesville and DeRidder.
Very sad day.
Posted on 2/1/25 at 9:45 am to Lieutenant Dan
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It was a Monday.
I remember the teacher wheeled in the tube TV & we watched it in elementary school.
You're thinking of the Challenger?
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