[general_re]

As described on the tube, New Mexico, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and possibly Mexico. Reports have said the shuttle may have been breaking up as early as California.

If so, it must have been minor - one of the nets (MSNBC?) ran the video of ground control during the approach, with NASA's map of the shuttle location. And they were still communicating with the shuttle as it was passing over the Texas panhandle, if I saw the map correctly. At least up until that point, it was intact enough that the crew apparently had no indication of trouble - the last communication about the tire pressure appeared to come just as it was passing over central Texas...

[dep]

nah. they were backchanneling tire overpressure stuff. communications about something going wrong, re. tire overpressure, had been going on, just not on nasa select.

dep

[DoughtyOne]

You know, a lot of things are reported after one of these events that are completely bogus. This may have been one of them. I appreciate your comments and agree that it sounds as if the report I heard was suspect.