Debris Photos (GRAPHIC)

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[XBob]

486 - your last three pictures here appear to be low temp tiles and also the first of 488.

all in very bad shape.

[XBob]

504- "It looks like one of the hatchways, perhaps to the payload bay? Or the main ingress/egress."

could be - i can't judge the size - the 17" main is 17" Inside Diameter, how big is that item?

[EternalVigilance]

HOW could a cloth patch survive when none of the spacesuit did?

I've heard that a stash (I'm not sure how many) of these patches were carried on each flight; to be used as momentoes of the trip.

If that is so, I can see how some might survive, and in fact be found in multiple locations.

[mathluv]

My response is NOT anti-Fed. To me, you were implying ONLY the Feds were capable of doing it, or as anti-Bush.

Of course the Feds are/will be in charge. It does not take beind federal to know ALL pieces, and where each lands, are important to trying to find out what happened. This is like an airplane crash, only over a much larger area. People were warned not to touch. That is the only thing that is new.

[mathluv]

Plus, having a person pictured by the debris gives a perspective to size of the debris. Being a native born Texan, I am disturbed by some of the comments by some posters that denigrate anyone from a rural area.

[mathluv]

Gig 'em.

Saltillo rules.

[Mad Dawgg]

I think CNN may have stumbled on to something here:

I am fairly sure the shuttle is not designed for such stresses.

Wow these guys are dumb!

[EternalVigilance]

And CNN wonders why they are going broke...

;-)

[Mark Felton]

There is something uniquely Texan about this image.

Mon Feb 3, 6:11 AM ET

Searchers look for fallen debris from space shuttle Columbia Sunday, Feb. 2, 2003 outside Hemphill, Texas. Seven astronauts were killed when space shuttle Columbia exploded during re-entry Saturday. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip)

[Mark Felton]

Mon Feb 3, 3:05 AM ET

A police officer (L) and a National Guard soldier stand watch on February 2, 2003 near a parking lot where a piece of the space shuttle Columbia fell after breaking apart during reentry, killing all seven astronauts. Authorities are still searching for pieces of the spacecraft in a debris field that covers 500 miles. NASA (news - web sites) has vowed to 'leave no stone unturned' in an exhaustive investigation into why the space shuttle Columbia broke up on February 1, 2003. (Jeff Mitchell/Reuters)

[lepton]

lep, I have tried and tried that link. It won't come up for me.

Yeah. It won't come up for me anymore either, even using the original means that I found it. It had a whole series of questions about rockets and the Space Shuttle as well as answers to the questions.

[lepton]

I just don't remember any helium tanks used in the frcs or the ohms/rcs pods.

According to the Diagram that Dan day posted at #263, there are at least 6 Helium tanks (two in each of the reaction control systems). Not that the item in question was neccessarily one of them.

[Vic3O3]

ping

[hopespringseternal]

I saw a message head accross the screen that said the shuttle "broke up at an altitude of 200,000 miles".

Of course, what they were saying was often a lot dumber.

[Arkinsaw]

To me, you were implying ONLY the Feds were capable of doing it, or as anti-Bush.

No, I am not anti-Bush.

Of course the Feds are/will be in charge. It does not take beind federal to know ALL pieces....

Local officials have not even been told where to take debris, whether or not to move it, when NASA will start moving it, etc. The fact that the Feds are not communicating seemed pretty obvious at the press conference yesterday.

[amom]

Well thanks for trying. I was at the NASA Columbia website earlier this weekend so they may have a duplicate page there. Fingers crossed.

[Churchillspirit]

My husband died suddenly in 1983. I still use his car - something left of him.

I would want the helmet.

It is a very personal thing.

[1Old Pro]

A Columbia mission patch was found alongside a road in Texas.

Out of all the debris, I found this one intersting as a patch would seem "light" and less likely to fall in close proximity to the heavier pieces. I would think a patch would almost float and would be hundreds of miles away.

[xp38]

LOL...there is a joke about Chief Engineer Scotty in there somewhere but the last time I posted black humour on some thread I got flamed.

[amom]

Thanks for the info. Very interesting