[AP SCOOP] Space Shuttle Columbia Will Be Visible In San Francisco Area (6AM Pacific)

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[leadpenny]

Space Shuttle Columbia is in a decent for the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and will pass over the San Francisco Area around 6:00 AM Pacific Time. Route will take the Shuttle over Las Vegas, Flagstaff, etc. NASA has still not decided which runway will be used. Landing will be at 9:16 AM Eastern.

[IncPen]

>> BTTT: Chilling real-time reading on this thread starting at about Post 18. <<

[TLBSHOW]

The question you asked was for what reason? I noticed you asked about it glowing almost from the start.

[leadpenny]

I feel a certain kind of relief, knowing that I was up and somewhat connected to what was going on. I just feel tremendous pain for the families and many people in this country who are just now beginning to hurt.

[jaz.357]

..Even the photos of the Columbia crew look eerily similar to the photos of the 1986 crew from Challenger...Can some one post side by side photos of Laurel Clark and Christa McAuliffe..They look like sisters!

[winodog]

I noticed the change in brightness after it went by (probaly in UT or AZ by that time). It seemed to go dim for a split second, then brightened back up.
It would be something like the flash the fella in CA mentioned but more like the light was turned off for just a second.

[leadpenny]

Check my post 19 and it may give you an idea of what I was thinking. I figured it was still kinda dark on the west coast and I do know those tile get red hot.

[TLBSHOW]

I missed the new news conference what was said at that one?

[nicmarlo]

Christa McAuliffe (1948-1986)

[don-o]

Now people are trying to sell pieces on Ebay.

They need to be dealt with and prosecuted hard..

Give vultures a bad name.

[SamAdams76]

[nicmarlo]

Laurel Clark xxxxxxxxx Christa McAuliffe

[leadpenny]

It was the news conference with Mr. Dittmore and Mr. Hefrin (Sp on both?). They had remote questions from all the NASA sites and there in Houston. Warnings started occuring at 8:53. Most of these were inoperative sensors in various areas of the left wing and the inboard and outboard tire heat and pressure sensors on the left side. At 8:53 they would have been over SF. This was not effecting the flight and I don't believe it was mentioned to the crew until later. The crew started to acknowledge a problem noted from flight controllers and at that time all commo and telemetry was lost. Houston didn't know there was a breakup until they saw it on TV but they knew something was horribly wrong.

[spectre]

Your initial post, was an important archive of FR history..IMHO.

I just read that there may be some people trying to sell pieces on EBAY? Why am I not surprised? Vultures.

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[afraidfortherepublic]

I was half watching and half listening to Fox & Friends this AM and heard Mike Jared (I think) say at 7:59 AM, "For our viewers in Texas, if you hear a loud noise it's just the space shuttle passing over your state." I immediately switched the channel to Animal Planet to catch my favorite show, "Breed All About It".

45 minutes later my husband rushed in from the kitchen to ask if I'd seen the news. "The shuttle broke apart over Texas and they've lost contact with it," he reported. Later the broadcast said it happened at 8:03, CST. It is so erie to think that the talking heads on Fox & Friends lightheartedly predicted a "big noise" over Texas just minutes before the explosion.

[Joe Hadenuf]

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[Republic of Texas]

bttt, anyone new here, read the first 20 posts, eerie.

[Wolfstar]

Thank you SO much for posting the entire poem, "High Flight." So appropriate as a memorial for today's events, and a much-appreciated reminder of the use the great Ronald Reagan made of the first and last lines of this poem. I can still hear his voice and remember the impact the beautiful imagry in those words had for me.

There is something so very touching in the fact that this simple, yet elegant and haunting poem can reach across the generations — indeed, across the centuries — to embrace both the heroes of a terrible war and of mankind's magnificent space adventure. God bless John Gillespie Magee, Jr., for writing this poem, and God bless President Ronald Reagan for enshrining them forever in this nation's memory.

[don-o]

Hell of a day.

I spied your post at about 8:55; and being a fan (not fanatic) of space flight since Alan Shepard, I then went to NASA-TV on line. (No cable TV here - I cannot deal with TV)

After five minutes of capcom calls, with no response, and Houston saying that Meritt Island had no track, I knew she was a goner.

AT 9:15, I went to the kitchen and told Mrs. don-o that we had lost the shuttle.

Thanks for taking the time to post the post that I saw.

And fwiw, I always hope and believe for something good to come out of this. On to Mars!!

[Jael]

This is the saddest thread ever. Historic. I hope someone saves it.

[xp38]

Dittos.....Thank you leadpenny for this thread...a piece of FR history for the archives.