[Chesterbelloc]

>If I got the sequence right from the NASA conference,
>there weren't any sensor problems until the Shuttle was >over Texas.

The shuttle is moving very fast. When they had the first sensor problem at 5:53 the shuttle was just north of San Francisco. From there it moved south of Lake Tahoe and was in Texas just a few minutes later. The schedule that I have had it actually touching down on the runway in Florida at 6:15:50 PST.

[afraidfortherepublic]

I was half listening and half watching to Fox & Friends this AM when Mike Jared said at 7:58 or 7:59 AM, CST, "For our viewers in Texas, if you hear a big noise in a few minutes, it's just the space shuttle crossing your state." I then switched channels to watch Breed All About It on Animal Planet. About 45 minutes later my husband rushed into the room to ask if I'd heard the news.

"They've lost contact with the space shuttle and it's breaking up over Texas," he reported. A few minutes later the news said that the accident had ocdurred shortly after 8:00 AM, CST.

It's just erie to think that the talking heads on Fox & Friends had been lightheartedly joshing about the re-entry and landing just minutes before the whole thing exploded and burned.