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Budge, what about the reports this morning that the trouble for the shuttle may have started a minute earlier thatn NASA had been saying? I heard they are now saying the trouble started at 8 minutes before the crash, not 7 as originally thought.

Where would the eight minute timeline put the shuttle over the earth as it was descending?

Thanks, Axel

Budge, what about the reports this morning that the trouble for the shuttle may have started a minute earlier thatn NASA had been saying?

I don't know, and can't confirm just when the trouble started.

NASA is reviewing the tape from the Australian astronomer in California that he took as it was passing over. It clearly shows something comming off Cloumbia then. That alone would put the beginning of trouble earlier.

Then there is the video the two young men took as it passed over Nevada. It clearly shows something comming off. They even comment on it on the tape. What I have no idea is, is that he same pice that the fellow in California saw and photographed, or another piece.

As far as your origional question of the time line, it will take someone much smarter than I to determine just that put Columbia. I'm thinking in the California/Nevada area though. Perhaps Snooperpod or bonesmccoy can better answer.

CORRECTION to my post #49.

Then there is the video the two young men took as it passed over Nevada.

That should be Arizona, not Nevada. They were in Wupatki National Monument (NE of Flagstaff) in northern Arizona.

The video, along with a still shot can be seen here.