A 68 TON rocket and its crew destroyed due... to a bit of foam.
On February 1st 2003, the American shuttle Columbia exploded as it returned to earth. On board, seven American astronauts from mission STS-107: two women and five men.
No one really realized it but sixteen days earlier during takeoff, a piece of the shuttle had broken off and seriously damaged the aircraft.
It is the tragic fate of an extraordinary rocket that we are going to tell you about.
How could a few grams of foam lead to the disintegration of this 68-ton space engine?
Why could this accident not have been anticipated?
Why was no rescue mission planned?
Thanks to the technical expertise of the greatest astronauts and the federal agents responsible for the investigation, but also thanks to the testimonies of the families, we will decipher every second of this disaster.
We will try to understand how the Columbia shuttle, considered the flagship of American aerospace, could have transformed into a ball of fire out of control...
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A documentary by François Tribolet
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I was in Dallas the morning the Columbia broke up. I was in the parking lot of Flight Safety International at the DFW Airport. I was late to ground school class as I stood there watching this machine break apart. I will never forget that horrible day.
What was the class' reaction to the loss of Columbia?
U want a medle for that mate..
Did u still have class that day
I'm an experienced orthopedics consultant and I can't imagine what you went through
I'm sorry for your memory 😢
Idk how the algorithm gave me this weird french/english documentary but I'm here till the end now.
It was the date of the anniversary of the shuttle loss, so I guess they mass algorithmed us to commemorate the event.
Don't waste your time. Space is fake, the Earth is flat, and NASA is nothing but a money sucking propaganda machine.
I ended up watching the entire thing myself
@@615tazit was beautifully done. I didn’t mind the French dialogue at all.
❤@@animula6908
NASA was advised that it might be wise to divert to make a pass by a satellite to get some images of the impact area to see if there was damage and they opted not to do that. NASA was advised to postpone the launch of Challenger because the temperature had dropped to freezing and the o-rings would fail. They opted to pressure MortonThiokol to override their engineers who built the boosters and was pushing to postpone the launch because the cold would prevent the rubber o-rings from sealing the joints between the booster segments. Two Shuttles and two crews vanished for negligence
Chilling. I hope they have changed their ways.
Yes agreed. As for having no ability to inspect the shuttle for damage is astounding! Why no spacewalk capability? Was it uneconomically viable?
@@gfujigowell they didn’t did they having already lost Challenger, a loss that was totally avoidable!
Some NASA people needed to be put in jail
Yes, the arrogance of the higher- ups in NASA have blood on their hands with regards to the Challenger and Columbia astronauts.
RIP Rick Husband (1957-2003) William C. McCool (1961-2003) Michael P. Anderson (1959-2003) Kalpana Chawla (1962-2003) David M. Brown (1956-2003) Laurel Clark (1961-2003) and Ilan Ramon (1954-2003)
geee you can type. congrats
@@FenianAn1mal Seriously? That is not what was anticipated.
@@Pol66590 That depends on cultural, social, and personal contexts. I'd say Husband is a nice surname!
Makes me wonder if space flight is even worth the risk.
@@FenianAn1malgee, your a douche bag. Congrats.
Whenever a government agency says"dont worry" then you know its time to worry
Exactly!!!
So true! Liars!!
❤❤❤❤😊@@Madonnism
Thank you for using the footage that I shot of Columbia in this documentary.
Footage I originally shared with you. You're welcome!
Oh, where’s my autograph book?@@utubebroadcaster
If that's true you should get royalties for your work
Well truth be told I gave you my camera that day so it's partially my footage
@@BlackMageSam If you “gave” your camera then you shouldn’t get any credit, but if you “loaned” your camera, then you should get credit.
Suits didn't listen to the engineers. That's why we lost Challenger and Columbia. Gross incompetent negligence from bureaucrats.
Dead wrong with the Challenger . It was Rockwell and the rest needed work. None died. And I was an eyewitness to the tragedy. Just like I was going to a reenactment when I said that we should have heard the booms just about now to the ex . It never came…..
@@dennisford2000 there were no booms because Challenger didn't detonate. The engines were still operating but from a structural standpoint the STS was broken up. You are so ignorant.
5th ⅚@@dennisford2000
There are more dead assigned to credentialed engineers and designers than you can imagine. How about the world trade center. I had a real good idea why it failed before the top story hit the ground. Why is that Joe?
What I haven't heard... if I were the family of any on those astronauts I would have sued NASA for "BILLIONS" because of their negligence. NASA committed murder at that launch. They should have never pushed to launch knowing that the One-Rings were compromised. SHAME ON THEM!!
Rest in peace, brave crew, very sad for the families.🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹.
No one really wants to talk about it, but the more I hear about the last moments of Columbia, the more I'm convinced that the crew knew they were doomed and were definitely conscious and felt physical pain at the end, if only for a couple of seconds.
Unfortunately I agree
NASA said they died instantly. Any Medical examiner will tell you that's BS.
The same is true of the Challenger crew. They were likely conscious when they hit the ocean.
Where's the video?
What is shocking is how consistently NASA disregarded safety concerns.
"An accident some years previous..."??? What an odd way to describe the Challenger disaster.
"There was an whoopsie several years before. A minor detail was overlooked causing NASA to request a mulligan"
Always down play your fck ups. Minimize, Deflect, and Deny.
Astronaut Kalpana Chawla’s smile makes me sad every time I see her 😢 RIP
Yea she was so cute
😮😮
Speed and velocity have so much power. A little piece of foam travelling hundreds of miles and hour can do so much damage. Same as when people think planes can just ditch in the water and be fine, at the speed the plane is travelling, hitting the water is like slamming into concrete. When the plane landed on the Hudson, it was a miracle landing, due to the captain’s skills.
I'm pretty sure nobody thinks that they can ditch a highspeed plane in the water anymore. Even the flat earthers have that one figured out.
An accelerating piece of foam.
@@Chris_Harris You'd be surprised.
God, don't tell me that stuff. I thought we had everyone tied into the "1. NO you can't jump up in the air so that the net result will be you hitting the water at 10mph. 2. this will turn your body into chum if you try to water land a plane at 150 knots" deal.@@nicolaskrinis7614
@@nicolaskrinis7614yeah, with the amount of people I see speeding in poor conditions or even exceeding capabilities of their vehicle/road, quite a few don’t get real world physics. Movies make everything seem survivable.
I watched the reentry live on a local TV station. When I saw the big piece fall away, my heart just sank, I knew then no one would survive such a break up on reentry. One subject not covered by the video is why the foam was coming unglued and falling off so often during ascent. Ten percent of total launched shuttles had foam come unglued and would strike the orbiter. Also on one of the many videos that was published over the years stated that the originally specified foam formula and glue was replaced with an environmentally friendly type of foam and glue that didn't work as well. I haven't seen that video sense. Very good program. Thanks.
i wouldn't be surprised if the original formula had asbestos, which is highly heat resistant. Then of course they had to ban asbestos, and therefore the new 'environmentally friendly' formula didn't resist heat nearly as well.
I still don't understand how a tiny piece of foam, even at 500 mph, could damage a metal monstrosity that was designed to withstand the violence of incredible wind speed and searing atmospheric heat upon re-entry. Why wouldn't the foam bounce off the metal? Did it compress into the hardness of lead within an instant, because of the speed/impact? As a lay person, I don't get the physics here, compared to the horrifying heat of the return. "A jackhammer?" But NASA knew foam was coming off during liftoff... right? It must've happened dozens of times. What kind of foam was it? Did it have steel spikes sewn into it?
@@4yerears The piece of foam was not tiny, around the size of a kitchen cabinet door, it's very hard, not the soft spongy foam used as packing in shipping boxes. Its has to be hard to with stand the high speeds of ascent. The soft spongy foam would not stand those air speeds without being torn off. Also the heat deflecting tiles are very brittle, not bolted on, they are attached with glue and can be easily damaged by an impact.
@@bio-techlarry9602 Thanks for writing back; I really appreciate the clarifications. Another few questions, if you have time: Why are the tiles brittle, and not more rugged? Is this to reduce the weight of the ship? And why AREN'T they bolted down? For a more sleek, aerodynamic surface? We're the re-entry capsules of the Apollo missions also glued tiles? Thanks so much!
@@4yerears Ok, because of the extreme heat, the tiles are made of Cermaic which is brittle but very light weight, does not conduct heat very well, and can be reused with only an inspection and a glue pull test of, I think the pull test is 2.2 lbs per tile. With the temperatures over 2500 C the steel bolts or any fasting device would melt away or damaged leaving a hole for the hot plasma to shoot through like a welding torch. As far as the heat shield on the Apollo and earlier missions, Tiles were not needed. Those space capsules were much smaller and lighter than the Shutte. The shield used a thick ablative material coating. As the material burns away, it takes some of the heat with it, the material would be thick enough so it would not burn through during re entry. It has to be replaced after each re entry. Thus it would not be practical for use on the Shuttle because of the weight and size. My pleasure. There are lots of videos on here and on google that will go into far more detail if ya want.
300 million dollars to pick up debris but wouldn't spend a couple of million to take a photo from a military satellite that without NASA most likely wouldn't be up there.
So many short-sighted decisions. With the horizon oil platform disaster they tried to save around $100,000 by not testing the cement. It ended up costing billions. As a basis of comparison it costs around $250,000 / day to operate an offshore oil rig.
What on excellent documentary. Very impressed with all the details and the honesty of those people on the ground.
I remember that morning. I’d had to leave my car in a public lot overnight due to mechanical trouble. I narrowly avoided having it towed. Once I finally had it at the garage, I checked it in and crashed in the waiting room. I rested my eyes for a few minutes, then opened them to see the television playing. Columbia’s crew picture covered the entire screen and in that moment, I knew something had happened. I later had to max out my credit card to pay for the repairs, but it didn’t matter. I was still here. Those astronauts were gone. It was a terrible day.
I bought my first semi 3 months before this happened. The night before this my engine threw 2 rods out of the block and I ended up in Columbia, Mo at a hotel. I remember waking up the next morning and turned on the TV to the news and thought "Why are they showing footage of the Challenger?" then seen that it was Columbia. I, like most people, was in shock that it happened again. R.I.P. to the crew and peace for their families.
How did you confuse footage of Challenger and Columbia? The incidents have no resemblance. Make up a better "look at me" story.
It could be expected that a lump of foam would be so soft that it would not damage anything. But at an impact at several hundred MPH chunks of foam become very energetic and lethal. The prime job of the tiles that covered the wing surface,was to provide fantastic thermal insulation. As the ship reenters , their outer surface gets very hot ( a thousand degrees or more) due to the compression as the air hits the outside and the friction as that air rubs against the surface. Those tiles do a fantastic job of keeping the aluminum structure of the ship reasonably cool during the 20 minutes or so time of the reentry. The tiles thermal conductivity has to be very minimal. To make that low the tiles had to be made of a felt made of thin fibers of a low conducting materiel. A material of that nature would have very low strength and elasticity. With hindsight maybe the wing should have had an additional layer of thermal insulation or a heat resisting steel leading edge. These suggestions would have added weight.
yap yap yap, but you truly have no fkin idea what you are talking about. try googling what the TPS system on the orbiters was actually made of before commenting.
You have a few facts off man. First off it was not tiles that were damaged on Columbia but the reinforced carbon carbon on the leading edge of the shuttles wings. Also the tiles were not made of felt fibers but were actually made of porous silicon, the tiles were glued to a felt cover on the shuttle. The carbon carbon leading edges were very strong but every material has its limits. The fact that NASA did no studies after seeing so many foam strikes shows how badly they "normalized" issues that should have raised concerns.
@@FenianAn1mal Take it easy, Karen.
HOAX 100 PERCENT
Who cares about your opinion. Next...
27:35 so basically, they were worried about spending money than these people lives that are on a perhaps, highly probable damaged rocket.
I also thought so.. very sad indeed!
Interesting to hear how they wouldn't move one of their spy satellites for the sake of at least knowing. I've not heard this information before. Makes me wonder what else I haven't heard.
@@Chris_Harristhe engineers at one of the Air Force bases in CA was so concerned, they asked the DOD turn one of their satellites toward the orbiter as it passed by. The engineers boss who was at NASA found out about the request to the DOD for taking photos of the orbiter. She was later dismissed. Look up Alan J McDonald’s video, “Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster: Ethics Case Study”. Alan covers the Columbia situation specifically the request of the DOD that was rejected by their boss. If you want a real eye-opener look up the Reagan Commission on the Challenger disaster. A much younger Alan J McDonald testifies and it is damning. It’s pretty long, but it’s worth every second.
@@Chris_Harrisit makes me think that they likely already knew it was a serious problem. But you can only claim plausible deniability if you don't have a satellite giving definitive proof. I think they concluded (perhaps not incorrectly) that additional attention to the issue and a potential leak to the public would lead to cries for a Hollywood-style rescue attempt a la "Armageddon".
53:45 On that day in 2003, i was driving to work on FM 1960 in NW Houston. It was a beautiful bluebird day! At approximately 9am, something made me look off to my left... and I saw what appeared to be silver glitter falling from the sky.... a few minutes later, i walked into the workplace, and found everyone looking at a tv.... news flash about the shuttle! It was then that I knew what I had seen! OMG! tragic moments I will never forget!!! 😢
The difference between the Challenger disaster and Columbia was significant. With the Challenger disaster lessons were learnt particularly as regards to the O rings and their susceptibility to weakness in very cold weather. The Columbia disaster on the other hand showed a fundamental flaw in the very design of the space shuttle , something which was overlooked right from the get go. Foam falling from the main booster rocket and striking the space shuttle was a common occurrence on lift off. It happened so often over the decades it became routine to the point that not much significance was paid to it. U can actually see tiles missing from various space shuttles on their return to Earth. The common perception amongst many was well.. it's only foam right? what possible danger can foam pose to the shuttle and the crew? How wrong they were. It was only after the Columbia accident that tests were performed which showed in fact foam falling and striking the space shuttle can indeed prove fatal. The foam which hit Columbia was larger than what was anticipated and hit a vulnerable part of the undercarriage of the left wing allowing plasma to penetrate it on reentry. It really was only luck a Columbia type disaster didn't happen decades earlier. What's particularly eerie was the video showing the crew preparing for reentry was not a live stream by NASA but a hand held recorder from a fellow astronaut which survived the reentry and was found in a paddock in working order.
Did anyone ever consider wrapping the tank in a fine nylon or similar net to contain the foam???
@@60sgalesburgerrfanNylon netting? Lol at that temperature?
Fine mesh would probably have been ripped off given the velocity of the shuttle after lift off and before the tank was jettisoned.
@@BlackMageSam the tank doesn't come back.
If not nylon metal, and if pulled tight it would slightly penetrate the foam and be protected. Too late to think about it, but when NASA did, they usually made things work.
For four years prior to that launch NASA had problems with trying to keep heat tiles from falling off and were doing space walk inspections to check and repair them with a special caulking gun and extra tiles. So my question is why they didn't hold to that protocol? Incompetence.
I think they knew what was going on and that there was no repair. There is also no backup mission or escape pod. All of the redundancy NASA builds into everything has limitations. They knew the damage was there because I saw an animation of the Challenger making reentry. The pilot was crabbing the craft and it looked like he was trying to take stress and heat off of the damaged wing on the way down by crabbing the craft like an airplane would do to reduce speed.
@@fukhue8226 I read somewhere that they could have done an improvised repair using asbestos heat blankets and filling the hole with heat resistant/insulating materials. It might have kept the interior of the wing from getting so hot it failed.
The most disgusting thing about all of this (outside of the obvious) is, in that letter from nasa to Columbia the person wrote, "Just one thing, it's not even worth mentioning, but, in case a reporter asks..". Like are you freaking serious. That is a someone trying to save face for nasa. Period. Disgusting.
it's so stupid that something bad always has to happen before we can do something about it. I know that's how we learn, but when you think about it, it's sad to think this way
Trial and error
Nothing in space is bothering me so I don't need to bother it. That's just me respectfully.
I saw live on challenger in 86 when I was 8.. than I saw live again on this . Wow
I was 14. I recall it as if it was yesterday. To see this in '03 was tragic.
Same I'm 45 now.
I'm the Oldest 👨🦯 I was 21 😁 I was working swing shift, so was in bed sleeping 😴 My friend called me and said The Shuttle just blew up! A known fibber, I said Yeah Right 😅 He said turn on the TV..... 😱😢😭
I’ll never forget this; feb 1, 2003 was my 16th birthday. I remember how this made me sad. Feb 1 is a happy day for me, and for their families it’s a sad day
death and sadness cares for only what's to be
@@thomasbrunn4182 What? wait again... What
We have the same birthday friend
This video has left me with more questions than answers
Obviously a major malfunction
IT WAS A GOOD VIDEO
I mean so does 9/11 and the Titanic, they all have something in common.
@@maskcollector6949 911 WAS DONE BY THE US GOVT. HUMANS NEVER SET FOOT OB THE MOON
It's funny how this documentary has more information than I haven't already heard in the 20 years since the disaster. I'd like to know about how Nasa had more information than I've seen in a bunch of other documentaries. I keep getting more and more pieces...
I remember this so well. Tragic.
not really
just a few earthlings
Toute personne qui a travaillé avec du carbone sait que si sa résistance à la température est grande, celui-ci peut se briser comme du verre face aux chocs. Cette configuration comportait indéniablement trop de risques en cas de collision contre ne serait-ce qu'un des nombreux déchets spatiaux largué lors de missions précédentes. Comment de tels ingénieurs ont ils pu ignorer ce fait et n'effectuer les tests de résistance qu'après le drame? Ca interpelle... Love-Love !
What a shame. I still remember this as if it were yesterday. The people at NASA probably have never studied basic physics. Any 12 year old could have told them that F=M x A2. Any physics undergrad could have explained the effect of an accelerating object, that even a very light object can strike and destroy anything in its path. What really makes me mad is that this foam separation had happened on many occasions in the past. Reinforced carbon fractures with impact more readily than they thought. They had never tested this resistance, or lack thereof, of carbon fiber to impact involving a small object weighing essentially a ton, or two. What were they thinking, or not? Their mistake was to trust management. To trust the engineers that were oblivious to the Laws of basic, Newtonian physics. RIP heroes.
You are right they never did. Nasa is bigger than Bollywood, most of them I heard are actors😅
You mean E = M x V^2
Just bumped into this amazing and sadful video on Sunday, April 28 2024. After watching a video on the Chinese President XI's last visit in the US, the KZhead algorithm suggested me this video. It's pretty informative and emotional as well. My prayers touch the beloved ones of these astronauts who unfortunately lost their lives in this incident. Thank you for uploading!
So much damage control from NASA officials in this video. Phrases like “Oh we didn’t know how serious it was” and “No one could’ve imagined what was to happen” all rub me the wrong way. Why in the hell did they willingly refuse to take a photo from a satellite, even when granted permission from the military? Because ignorance is bliss. They knew.
Even if they could see any damage, what could they do? Just curious if there were any feasible options to rescue these guys
@@ManuelFlores-oe2wf I honestly doubt it. They mention in the video that it would’ve just put more lives at risk and I agree with this statement. Where I take issue is when they start denying knowledge of how doomed they were.
What I found really disgusting at the time was that the Nasa Administrator making official statements about the accident while the investigation was still ongoing. Even worse, he was all angry about the people who were investigating foam impact as a possible cause and was publicly disparaging them, calling them "foam-heads". The "foam-heads" wound up being right and it was proven through live testing on actual shuttle components. They had a spare wing leading-edge and when they fired a piece of foam at it at 500 MPH, it punched right through. Bammo, major controversy put to rest. The administrator should've been fired and lost a quarter of his retirement as a penalty for his assinine behavior. As far as I was concerned, he was guilty of tampering with the investigation through use of illegal command influence (it's a charge that has taken down a good number of military commanders, either when trying to get somebody exonerated who is guilty or trying to jam up somebody who is innocent).
There was no way to do a rescue of them even if they took photos from a satellite. What could they so other than tell them they had no chance of returning home alive. I would have given the families solace though to at least be able to say goodbye.
Didn’t a Soyuz dock with a USA spaceship during the Cold War
Astonished and horrified that NASA went to such lengths as redeploying a military satellite and software analysis of ground-based video footage to avoid an EVA visual inspection of the wing in order to establish whether it had in fact been damaged by foam impact. Without any such capability, when damaged a safe return would not be possible. Unfortunately for the crew, NASA chose absence of evidence. The crew paid with their lives. Deeply saddening.
Wouldn't have made any difference. No way to fix the damage.
@@daveworthing2294This. Idk why people think it’s like a ship floating in the ocean. The ONLY possibility would have been to scramble Atlantis for a quick launch (extremely dangerous in itself), pray it didn’t suffer the same damage (as there wouldn’t have been any time to address the issue), and hope more people didn’t die on a Hail Mary. People act like space rockets just sit there, ready to launch at a moments notice. Typically, they’re stored without any fuel or boosters (for obvious reasons), and there are months of prep work and inspections involved. It’s not a fire truck. You can’t just slide down the pole and jump in.
They can't cover it up with evidence...
What about a Soyuz
@@thetowndrunk988 It just shows how flawed the shuttle system was. Talking big with 60 flights per year, when they couldn't get one every 3mths.
The memorial at the Kennedy Space center was my favorite part of the whole museum. All astronauts lost in this and the Challenger each have a dedicated photo and personal belongings to celebrate/honor their sacrifice and at the end of the hallway, I felt something i never have seeing the 2 pieces of both orbiters on display. Truly well done, I highly suggest seeing it in person.
I really need to go there and see this ❤😢
Pour l´amour de la science, quel sacrifice!!!
Dans l aviation et le nucléaire ons ne compte pas les morts des pioniers
@@HubertPetremann-oy6th c'est la vie
I often wonder why they didn't see, and recognize the problem and then proceeded to fixing it.. like Apollo13! They saw the problem, recognized the need for a solution and then went at it.. NASA should have told the crew and then got their collective asses together to solve the problem.. whether or not they sent a new shuttle or not they should have came together to solve it.. that crew deserved a team that was comparable to whom served Apollo.. they may have survived!
Even if they had sent another shuttle to transfer them onto, it couldn't have gotten there in time before their oxygen ran out. T
I just hope the families got welll compensated, and those involved held accountable....pride turned into grief and shame...
Comme à chaque fois, argent, carrière, argent, contrat.... L'équipage était condamné, et le mensonge de la Nasa à son égard est intolérable. Aucune leçon n'avait était retenue suite à l'explosion de Challenger, qui était là un véritable crime, puisque en 1986, l'équipage n'avait aucune chance de survivre au décollage à cause du froid. A l'époque, Roger Boisjoly, ingénieur chez Morton Thiokol, qui fabriquait les booster à poudre, avait tout fait pour empêcher le décollage, car il savait que les joints des boosters ne rempliraient pas leur fonction vu les températures trop basses. Malgré l'aide d'Allan Mc Donald qui avait refusé de signer l'autorisation de décollage, Challenger avait bien sur explosé. Le mieux, c'est que les responsables se sont vus promus, alors que Boisjoly a été mis au placard comme Mc Donald dans une moindre mesure peut-être.
Hummmm ce monde ! Il est répugnant 🤮🤮🤮🤮
Oui bienvu ils sont toujours en vie pour la fusse challenge oui
@@Ninjaskillervshayabusa que racontes tu comme connerie, tu crois encore que la terre est plate ?
Un documentaire détaillé faite par des étudiants allemand a retrouvé 6 des 7 personnes de l'équipe de 1986 , fait tes propres recherches avant de dire qu'on es dit des conneries !
Et visiblement, tu es assez con pour croire un doc', qui te présente 6 rescapés sur les 7 de Challenger qui a explosé. C'est cela, donc, Christa McAuliffe, elle continue à faire l'école ou elle est en retraite ? Sais-tu la quantité de carburant dans une navette, sais-tu la consommation par seconde ? En gros, la navette bouffe 14 tonnes par seconde, elle emporte env 1900 tonnes de carburant. Au moment de l'explosion, il en restait env 900..... Pauvre gland.
Correction, the challenger crew was alive after the shuttle exploded, the cockpit where the crew were is a protected environment and despite it being now known that they survived, it is likely the impact with the ground (ocean) that killed the crew, so they knew for several minutes that they were going to die.
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Was it sabotage?Did the crew see something
@@Khaseenwar09 No, it wasn't sabotage. The Challenger had faulty o rings, and they came apart after the liftoff. After that the o rings were replaced with better ones on future flights.
The shuttle assembly did not actually explode but rather disintegrated under extreme aerodynamic forces. However, your point about the integrity of the crew compartment is indeed correct. Rather a terrifying prospect.
This documentary was riveting, nailbiting cold sweat inducing , excellent work by these guys
The title made me immediately think of the Challenger, something so simple as a rubber ring that took so many intelligent lives including a school teacher. These are some of our lead scientists doing this work trying to prepare for the worst when theres still so much thats unknown about the environment they are planning for. Living my entire life in the "rocket city" surrounded by von Braun accomplishments, i really enjoyed this video.
Day 2 NASA knew everyone is going to die because of the hole in the wing. But they didn’t do anything to save them.
saving is easier to say then do its not like they send a fire truck to your house to extinguish a fire in your home...they need to go in outer space... they were the moment debris hit the wing
Don’t be an ass
They never got off the elevator
Phenomenal job on video!! Thank you.. RIP cew ❤❤❤❤❤😢
Thanks Dave again for great info video. Mikael from Finland 🇫🇮
Sorry to hear the loss of so many families. Being a astronaut is scary and risky. My condolences to the families. 😞
Thanks for information...
Rest in Peace , Valiant Space Shuttle Crew , May God comfort Your Families , we recognize your Courage and dedication , Rest In Peace you Valiant Men and Women , May your Families be Comforted, God bless you Guys You will never be Forgotten.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
p sure they would be vomitting in the afterall from this, if there were such a thing.
AH la poisse quand elle sy met. Allez David courage. J'aime tes enquetes.Bisous .
I used to work in the thermal Protection Systems Department of Martin Marietta Michoud, and they always preached about the quality of the foam and the dangers of the foam coming off. I really saw why on that day! I am happy to say that it is unlikely that I worked on that foam of that tank since I was probably laid off long before that tank was ever manufactured.
Challenger explosion did not kill the crew. Veteran astronauts have testified that the crew was alive all the way down to the ocean.
This has been a known fact for years. Thanks for trying though.
There's a photo of them in their old age
Not all of them
@@user-bd3zy6wo7lthat's fake the family members would know they living
The part that confuses me about that is how did they survive the explosion though?
15:57 Je tiens à apporter une précision: Challenger n'a pas explosé mais s'est désintégré. C'est bel et bien un nuage que l'on voit et non pas une explosion (hormis les boosters). Il a d'ailleurs été mentionné que l'équipage n'est donc pas mort à T+72 et que les airpacks ont été utilisé plus de 2min après l'incident. On peut considérer que l'équipage a perdu conscience suite à la dépressurisation et que cela leur a été fatal.
ouais sauf qu'aucun des "acteurs" de challenger n'est mort ...il est facile de trouver des infos sur tous les membres ...il suffit de chercher.
@@cusoonmyfriend3738 garde ça pour tes soirées entre "initiés", et évites de venir salir la mémoire de gens immensément plus courageux et intelligents que toi.
@@BadApple42 Bonsoir @Bad Apple42, comme @cusoonmyfriend3738 j'ai visionné le reportage dont il parle, et qui porte sur le devenir des astronautes de Challenger, dès lors que j'en ai pris connaissance, je serais vraiment malhonnête de médire sur les propos que rapportent @cusoonmyfriend3738, car la vidéo en question est plus 'qu'édifiante' ! Je vous invite donc à la regarder. Attention, il s'agit-là de Challenger, et non pas de Columbia. J'espère que vous la retrouverez, bonne visu !
tu peux me donner tes "infos", je crois les avoir croisé tous les 7 chez Aldi hier ! Pauvre gland, tu imagines, tu es assis sur 900 tonnes de poudre et hydrogène liquide qui te pète au cul à une vitesse supersonique !!! Abruti.
@@cusoonmyfriend3738 Je confirme ! D'ailleurs , ils n'ont pas étaient trés loin pour pour changer de nom car,ils les ont gardés pour la plupart
I remember seeing the craft coming apart during reentry feeling so sad about the end result, so sad indeed, the loss a a fine team and family members being able to see the end result must have been terrible. R.I.P. gallant crew.
A gamble to send them Could not rescue them it’s that simple Those astronauts are very intelligent people They risk their lives for space exploration Very courageous people They are even more intellectually aware of the dangers
Yes, from what I've read, the fatality rate of human space travel still sits at around 2%.
Nasa, Apollo era, "We're getting the home." NASA, shuttile era, "its probably too difficult to try, we don't want to risk 7 people to try to save 7." Men were different in the 60s. Failure wasn't an option.
lol this is easily in the top 10 of dumbest comments in this video
@@FenianAn1maliknr? Here we are watching this beautiful documentary about the Columbia space shuttle disaster, and this guy is talking about real estate 😂😂😂
Vraiment intéressant. Franchement, on voit bien que ça aurait pu ne pas finir si tragiquement, l'excuse avancée c'est "yavait jamais eu de problème avant "! Mais on voit bien ici que la Nasa savait que la navette était endommagée et ils n'ont rien fait pour tenter quelque chose, ils ont juste dit c'est un problème technique, pas de sécurité, c'est triste pour ceux qui y ont perdu la vie et leurs familles, on sait que de telles missions ne sont pas sans risques mais dans ce cas, l'erreur se paye cher car elle est due à une véritable nonchalance, comme quoi, il ne faut jamais être sûr de rien..😢
Qu'est-ce qu'ils auraient pu faire ?
@@ilronin804 tenter quelque chose pour agir directement...
Comme quoi, quand l'HOMME se croit super-intelligent, que tout est PARFAIT, qu'il ne peut rien entraver sa 'construction' quelconque ???!!!
@@ceciledonnet6467envoyer une autre navette avec des dépanneurs???
@@denton1000 il aurait surtout fallu ne pas prendre ça à la légère et prévenir l'équipage, plutôt que de les mettre devant le fait accompli, il y avait sûrement des autres solutions à chercher plutôt que de se dire que tout devrait bien se passer, il faudrait prevoir une possibilité de sauvetage dans de tel cas car ils risquent quand même leur vie et il n'y a pas de moyen de tenter de les sauver si ça tourne mal😥
I remember. Seeing this On TV and watched in Horror my Hart sunk. Imagine begin burn alive and there's nothing they can do About. I know something was wrong With that space shuttle when started to pick up alot Òf speed. It look ĺike A mentor right falling From the sky. My sincere condolences too the families that lost there loved Ones on Columbia. I will never Forget that Day as long As I live.
NASA actually came across this scenario 15 years prior: STS-27, 1988, a chunk of foam from external tank impacted the shuttle, and the crew were informed that their chance to surviving reentry is low, but the foam impacted a point that was holding an antenna which blocks extreme heat from entering Atlantis wing and thus saving all 5 asttonauts onboard
Awesome documentary 👍👍
it is a great docu on the Columbia, but sheesh what a bleak and badly written video title!!
Since it's inception , Falling foam has always been something NASA engineers have contended with ..
The Shuttle Orbiter itself has never failed. The SRB with Challenger destroyed the vehicle. The ET failed, destroying Columbia. The Orbiter was fragile, of course. But, without the other component failure, The Shuttle would still be flying.
This is true. It was always the lift system that had problems/failures. Not the shuttle itself.
Interesting point, but without the SRB and ET, the shuttle could not achieve orbit. In the documentary it states that around 70-80% of thrust on take-off/ initial ascent comes from the SRBs. Given this, although separate components, they were designed to work as one integrated unit. They tried their best to apply learnings from the X-15, but the Shuttle could not use Inconel. They faced extremely tough engineering challenges with those 1500 F temperatures. I wonder if they could do more with slowing the descent rate like more banking and a slower and longer reentry. I'm sure there are good reasons why not. Some say humans are not meant to go to space. Maybe they have a point, but I believe that is our destiny. We have much more to learn about physics and aerodynamics. Perhaps in coming decades there will be major breakthroughs in material science and aeronautics, assisted by AI and then we'll say "ah ha". I wonder if it's possible to have some kind of laser bubble or shield like the hypothetical Star Trek Enterprise has. Maybe something with magnetism. What can resist that plasma? As they say at those speeds molecules are torn apart. We need to find better ways to shield the heat shield. We need at least dual-layers and a more redundant approach.
Thank you to the families
I was almost 3 years old and was living in Nacogdoches when the shuttle exploded back in 2003. My dad and sister heard the explosion, and my grandfather actually saw in the sky the explosion. They also found a piece of debris from the shuttle that broke through the roof of the optometrists office where my grandmother worked. It’s been 21 years now, and it’s so sad to think that something like this could happen… my heart breaks for the families and friends of the astronauts who were killed that day 😢
Nasty nac
That email sent to Rick and Willie is infuriating. So much dismissal of what was a major issue. NASA really dropped the ball.
Incredible documentary. Sorry for the losses.
O-rings: "Nah, there's always some erosion, no biggie" Insulating foam: "Nah, chunks are always coming off, no biggie"
I wonder if the astronauts could have docked with the iss until help could arrive?
They couldn't because the space shuttle and ISS were on different orbital planes
Keep in mind all the fuel was spent getting up into orbit. The orbiter didn't have the fuel to get to the iss.
It wasn't the tiles that failed. It was the carbon carbon leading edge of the left wing that was breached by briefcase sized piece of foam that hit it at a relative speed of 550mph (850kph) carrying great kinetic energy.
yet they said the carbon fiber was basically indestructable, but that's on earth at room temperature not in the vacuum of space and -300 degrees or whatever!
@@HobbyOrganist it was 20 to 25kms high. Cold, but not -300C
Plus possible friction warmth.
Management's always screw the working employee, safety of no concern to them just $$$$
May the crew of the Columbia tragedy RIP. ❤❤ I’ve been to both the Johnson Space Center in Houston and the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida. Seeing those two incredible places was a dream come true for me. In addition, for extra icing on the cake, I saw Atlantis out on the launchpad.
Watched it live as it happened back in the day. Tragic.
Dans un autre documentaire on voit l'étonnement des ingénieurs lors d'une reconstitution du choc de l'impact du bloc de mousse sur l'aile, lorsque effectivement ce choc produit un trou! Ils ne croyaient vraiment pas cela possible... Comme quoi il ne faut jamais penser tout savoir! Et quand on pense que chaque vol de cette navette, c'était jouer avec le feu...
NASA knew they were going to die on reentry, but still told them to land it
Yup, and covered up all the evidence. NASA took all their work underground after. That's clearly the goal...to keep power away from the public and keep people stupid so ending the space program is a big part of controlling the populations.
I believe they hoped it will be OK, but when things went wrong they new what flawed spacecraft they sent up.
Thanxxxx 4 explaining it so well + 4 sharing to us....!!!! Big thank you
Imagine if a rescue mission with a second shuttle had been launched and had been successful. Would have been one of the most epic achievements of mankind.
Even by taking all available shortcuts the next launch would have taken 5 weeks. The risk of failure was over 50%. It just couldn't be done.
Je fus horrifié par cette catastrophe. Espérons que l'équipage n'eut pas le temps de souffrir. Paix à leurs âmes et pensées à leurs familles. De cette tragédie découle une pensée qui me turlupine depuis longtemps: et quid des milliers d'objets divers qui sont satellisés autour de notre planète? Ne sont-ce pas des projectiles en puissance? Sachant que le plus petit de ces objets peut provoquer des catastrophes similaires, voyant aujourd'hui des stations spatiales passer au dessus de nos têtes, autant de risques pour les populations, autant d'épée de Damoclès, autant de nouvelles catastrophes à venir et que fait à ce propos les pays sensés maîtriser la découverte spatiale? J'espère que la réponse n'est pas un silence assourdissant ! La récupération de ces débris n'est-elle pas devenue la priorité, le véritable challenge ultra-prioritaire? Notre proche domaine spatial n'est-il pas de notre responsabilité? N'y a t'il pas assez de gabegie sur Terre pour recommencer ailleurs ce que nous ne maîtrisons pas sur notre "belle bleue"? Je commence à comprendre les hésitations de nos voisins galactiques à officialiser leur présence dans une poubelle à ciel ouvert ! Ceci étant une pointe d'humour afin de dédramatiser une situation où nous risquons de prendre l'horizon sur la gueule. La puissance d'un pays se mesure t'elle au nombre de déchets parsemés ici et là ?
Est tu horrifié par les civils mort dans les guerres ?
C tro long le com on a lu que la première ligne
Parle pour toi surtout si tu lis aussi bien que t'écris !
C'est évidemment un gros risque mais c'est économiquement impossible de nettoyer tout ça.
@@mabiteahungout9246 preuve que nous sommes encore au stade de " l'apprenti-sorcier".
Great documentary, but was spoiled by the French speaking, found that quite off putting, should have provided English audio translation
Loved this video thank you
a 1'07 de la vidéo, la raison de la destruction semble déjà évidente. "à l'époque, on pense que c'est vraiment indestructible..." Cette phrase démontre le niveau.. On pense sans s'en être assuré. On connait la vitesse de la navette, on a des salles de test, or, pour "penser" que c'est indestructible, il faut préalablement faire des tests pour s'en assurer... Les résultats auraient invalidé ou pas les certitudes....
Decide the language of the lecturer, the French gaps are so annoying
👏🏽👏🏽
Imagine being angry other languages exist in the world.🤦🤦
@@afonphoenix16 it's not what I said. Silly
@@tarafficstory "Having to listen to another language annoys me." That is LITERALLY what you said. Unless they're annoying for some other reason, it sounds like it's because they're not in English.🙄🤦
@afonphoenix16 No, it is not what I said at all. It is annoying because it changes from one language to another so I can listen sometimes and never know if there will be part to read subtitles. I speak a few languages (I'm not English native) but not very good at French. So it hurts when it swaps. I said gaps are annoying and not the existence of the French language. If I'm set to read subtitles all the time, it is also fine as long as it is consistency there. Hope that is now clear what I ment
C'est triste ( après coup ) de ne pas avoir pris vraiment au sérieux cette impacte de cette mousse .. Car 7 personnes était en jeux quand même ...! Donc tout le monde est responsable surtout ceux qui décide de ne pas faire cette photos ...!
ce qui est en jeu c'est la capacité des goyims à croire en cette énième arnaque ...
What possible good would have came from taking the photos? They would have had to scramble Atlantis for a fast launch (which is never safe), pray it didn’t experience the exact same issue (since there certainly wouldn’t have been time address it), and hoped that it didn’t kill even more people. You’re not rescuing people off a cruise ship. They’re in space.
Un peu d'accord avec @thetowndrunk988 pour le coup, même si ils avaient pris les clichés permettant d'avoir vision sur le problème, ils n'avaient semble-t-il pas beaucoup de solution réaliste pour vraiment changer l'issue qui les attendaient.. :-/ A part une mission sauvetage improvisée à faible chance de succès qui aurait non seulement coûté une fortune mais qui aurait obligatoirement été menée dans la précipitation engendrant avec elle son lot de problèmes.
@@Gree043 Unfortunately, KZhead translate isn’t working, so I have no idea what you’re saying. Either way, it was an unfortunate event, that could have been avoided with better diligence on the ground, but once they were in space, they were pretty much doomed. It’s not like they carried around spare materials to fix the hole, and as I said in my previous post, launching Atlantis fast enough to save them just simply wasn’t remotely possible in reality.
@@thetowndrunk988 No worries :-) ! Actually I said I was agree with you and that there wasn't much NASA could realistically do in order to save the crew once they were in space.
Merci
I remember that day. It was a Saturday morning and I was watching MSNBC. It was incomprehensible. 🥺
and here i thought space was fake, i was so blind. Thank you for your service to humanity, seriously, thank you
Think about this the Sr 71 goes Mac III the skin of the airplane heats up to about 500 degrees have you seen what the jet looks like? you think that the space shuttle shaped like that really went that fast and all the decals an the paint stayed on it did not burn off,?
@@KNT.63 no I don't think that I was being sarcastic
Yes very tragic! Willie McCool was a Jr High & High School class mate and friend in Guam before his family was transferred to another installation in the US. He and his wife Lani & Kids were special friends and will miss Willie. They even named a Jr High School here in Guam in his memory Willie McCool Jr High School. To Lani and kids, Uncle Joey and Uncle Warren will always Love and miss you all and our friend and classmate Willie. He departed this world doing what he loved and you could not ask for a better way to go no matter how tragic. Lani, you and kids will always hold a special place in our hearts and hope we were able to help and comfort you during your visit to Guam after this tragic event. Take care!
Tous mes hommages à 7 astronautes 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Il est super ce reportage
My thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of the crew of the flagship 'Columbia' today. It was 20 years ago today at approximentaly 0900 cst,.1000 est that she tragically and unavoidably disentagrated on her return to Earth. God comfort them. God Bless the crew of Columbia.
21 years ago
As much as I love the Shuttle it was basically a space 737 Max
Pour Challenger, les astronautes n’ont pas tous péri au moment de l’explosion mais lors du crash dans l’océan.
Tu crois? ils étaient assis sur plusieurs milliers de litres d'hydrogène et d'oxygène liquides quand Challenger a pété. Les réservoirs n'étaient pas pleins, c'est vrai, mais il restait encore du coco dedans bien après que les boosters à poudre soient largués... Et justement, c'est parce qu'ils n'étaient pas encore largués que la navette à pété. Sérieux, ça m'étonnerait qu'ils n'aient pas tous été tués sur le coup. L'explosion qu'ils ont du encaisser, c'était pas celle que provoque le réservoir d'essence d'un scooter alors qu'on en est à 10 mètres
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Très bon documentaire. Cet équipage aurait-il pu être sauvé, par exemple par le lancement d’une navette de sauvetage ? Un excellent article dans Ars Technica publié il y a quelques années montre que non. Dès les premières minutes cet appareil et son équipage étaient condamnés. Doomed!
They said so in the documentary. No rescue shuttle could've gotten there in time before Columbia's oxygen ran out.
So WHO was arrested? Out of the people who knew that the shuttle quite probably had a decent-sized hole...which one of them was arrested? They had tons of time to discuss re-routing what must be assumed to be military spy satellites and all sorts of other stuff. And in the end, it sounds like the "guilty" guy is a program that is only meant to figure out if a strike the size of your palm was terminally destructive to the Shuttle? Is that the guy because I'm hearing things in this documentary that I've never heard before that put several people in the crosshairs of "we didn't do EVERYTHING" we could have done so 7 people died because we assumed a whole lot of stuff(which is ALSO what I just heard a whole lot of). So, NASA, who got arrested? Who is righting the scales of right vs wrong because they didn't get close to saying all the wrong I've heard of in this video. It's curious that I've watched a lot of videos on this and yet I STILL got more information about NASA's screwups than I had ever heard before. Makes you wonder. How much more haven't they told us?
I’ve always said from the beginning (I’m 63yo) there should have been a redundancy for the heat shield, and I’m no engineer far from it, I remember watching the Apollo missions seeing ice and lots of it coming off the rocket.
Ideally, yes. However, there has never been redundancy for any of the heat shields and nit just on the Shuttles. The problem is the extra weight that is going to inevitably add, which means you'll also need more fuel to get whatever crew compartment you're using into space to begin with.
The ice on Apollo missions was caused by condensation freezing on the rocket from the cold fuel. The foam on the shuttle tank prevented this ice from forming.
Here’s the thing. In any other form of engineering, redundancy is designed. In nuclear engineering, there is a saying that 1+1=100, because you definitely want overkill. But in space flight, every single gram matters. You’re fighting directly against gravity, unlike any other form of transportation, plus factor in wind resistance at extremes. Every last freaking gram matters, and so engineers have to get it precisely correct. Hence why space flight is the most dangerous form of transportation, and always will be.
HUMANS NEVER SET FOOT ON THE MOON, IN THE 1960'S WE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE BEEPERS OR COLOR TV, HUMANS CAN'T GO PAST THE ISS, TOO DANGEROUS AND RISKY, EVER HEARD OF THE VAN ALLEN BELTS, THE HIGHEST AMOUNT OF RADIATION SITS ACROSS THOSE CHANNELS, HUMANS AND THE SPACECRAFTS CAN'T PASS THROUGH IT, THAT'S ONE MAJOR PROBLEM, THE OTHER PROBLEM IS THAT THE MOON IS 250 MILES FROM THE ISS, HOW THE HELL WILL WE MAKE IT THERE AND BACK HOME ON EARTH WITH THE FUEL WE HAVE ON THE CRAFT. THERE'S A REASON WHY CHALLENGER AND COLUMBIA BLEW UP, THE MISSIONS ARE TOO SCARY, EVEN WITH OUR ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY OF TODAY WE HAVEN'T EVEN ATTEMPTED A MOONER LANDING YET WE HAVE THE B2 BOMBER TECHNOLOGY, I DON'T HAVE TO BE A FLAT EARTHER TO UNDERSTAND ALL THAT, YOU'RE GULLIBLE AND NAIVE MY BOY, TAKE THE RED PILL CAUSE THAT BLUE PILL HAS YOU BELIEVING ALL SORTS OF BULL CRAP, IT WAS THE COLD WAR ERA, ALL COUNTRIES WANTED TO PUFF THEIR CHEST OUT AS THE SUPREME POWERS OF TECHNOLOGY, RUSSIAS/CHINA/U.S WERE ALL VYING FOR THAT NOTCH ON THEIR BELT, WE HOAXED IT TO MAKE IT APPEAR AS IF THE U.S HAD ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY YET WE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE CELLPHONES OR BEPPERS, STOP BOY
@@leelunk8235 "HUMANS NEVER SET FOOT ON THE MOON": Even soviet russia confirmed that the Americans were on the moon, but okay flat earther. xD Got any other conspiracy theories you wanna share with us?
I can recall the exact time, place & feeling of the CHALLENGER disaster of Jan.'86. I was a sophmore in HS, 15 yrs young adolescent. Conversely- I don't have a single recollection of the subsequent tragic COLOMBIA disintegration on Feb.'03, despite the fact I was an educated, traveled, mature 32 yr old man. Perhaps, being in my first phase of copious opiate ingestion, music recording & performing inbetween touring, might have something to do w/my lapse in awareness of current events post new-millineum. What a fog I was in!
I felt sorry for the commander at nasa he looked gutted nasa should of told the crew the truth when will nasa learn look at the other in 1985 or 1986 they choose not to listen to the actual people who know what is wrong may God forever bless the crew and their families 🙏 😢 ❤️
Ils ont explosé et ils sont toujours vivants !😊
Exact, ils ne sont jamais entrés dans la fusée. Ils ont tous été repérés par la suite sous leurs vrais noms ou un nom d'emprunt. Quand c'est le peuple qui paye, tous les abus sont permis.
@@jeanlesperance1932 Oui, je les ai encore croisés au Carrefour Market samedi dernier.
déjà rectification dans votre introduction vers 00 :00 :40 Ce n’est pas « comment quelques grammes de mousse ont-ils pu conduirent à la désintégration de cet engin spatial » mais « Comment quelques CONARDS ont-ils pu conduirent à la désintégration de cet engin spatial » !!!
Very much in retrospect, but imagine a single series of light sensors inside the wing, in areas that ‘should be pitch black’. Minimal weight, only one extra wire. The outputs to the computers would be one of ‘circuit broken’, ‘circuit intact’, ‘light detected’. Light detection would only occur when light hits a sensor. Combined with a repair kit on-board, this would have prevented Columbia. The protocol for abnormal readings would be ‘if light detected, spacewalk needed’ and ‘if circuit broken, investigate further, consider spacewalk’.
Literally gave me goosebumps reliving this horrible day
Thats a lot of risk and fuel energy to enter space and be back safe. Not worth it.
FACTS TOO DANGEROUS..HUMANS NEVER SET FOOT ON THE MOON..HOAX