[FreedomCalls]

I disagree that the photo definately shows the left thruster firing to correct an off-nominal yaw. The plume you see trailing the left wing could be a smokey metallic plume from burn-through of the leading edge of the wing spar just under where the reinforced carbon-carbon is attached. If the RCC leading edge was cracked at take off, and the heat infiltrated under it during re-entry, we could expect to see a plume of smoky metallic debris from the burn through -- kind of like the smoke from an arc welder. That could be what is visible here. Clearly the leading edge has suffered trauma of some sort.

[freepersup]

Numerous eyewitnesses from Ca. to Tx. have captured images and first hand accounts of the shuttle's passage overhead, and all of them have at least one thing in common, a smoke trail and or numerous smoke trails and debris trails (shuttle material shedding) as part of their reports.

Does that exclude a thruster firing ? No-

But this condition can be substantiated from numerous sources. In other words- a known condition. Heat/smoke/debris contrail/s.

Where was the picture, taken that is a Fox video capture (zoom) of the shuttle hurtling sideways across the sky ? Texas ?