[virgil]

I thought I heard in the news conference that the shuttle was experiencing increased drag on the left wing and the flight control system compensated by rolling right. I thought he said that that amount of response was higher than usual but not out of specs, whatever those are. I heard the MSNBC afterwards say that the shuttle was rolling right, way over, like it was over compensating. I'm kind of confused about this.

[Lady Jag]

MSNBC got it wrong, it's left, left on takeoff, left on re-entry.

[tubebender]

I'm kind of confused about this.

My money is riding with Ron Dittemore at NASA. By the time those pictures were taken Columbia had been in trouble for at least 6 minutes and several hundred miles.