[Airborne Longhorn]

I share your views about the streaming telemetry; it's always captured, uninterrupted, throughout each mission's duration.

In all likelihood, every bit and byte of data, up to the moment of explosion, should be recovered and serve as the most reliable source for nailing down the cause of this tragedy.

And what a wonderful address just now by the President...what a man.

[Movemout]

"And what a wonderful address just now by the President...what a man. "

Amen to that. "We know that they didn't return to Earth but they did return safely home." Maybe I screwed that up a little but that is a beautiful thought.

[Stefan Stackhouse]

I share your views about the streaming telemetry; it's always captured, uninterrupted, throughout each mission's duration.

But didn't the catastrophic failure happen right during the time when communications is blacked out during re-entry?