The Columbia Accident Investigation Board determined in a hard-hitting report on the disaster that the hole was caused by a chunk of foam insulation that broke off the fuel tank at launch. 2:03 Diving team discovers debris from NASA Challenger space shuttle.
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Pieces most likely to interest researchers include thermal protection tiles and parts of the reassembled left wing where a huge gash let in hot atmospheric gases that brought down the shuttle. Listen 4:15 4-Minute Listen Playlist Download Embed Transcript NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks with National Air and Space Museum curator Jennifer Levasseur about recently discovered debris. Rating: False About this rating Seventy-three seconds into the 28. Some of Columbia’s largest pieces include the landing gear and the window frame. A secret tape recorded aboard the doomed space shuttle Challenger captured the final panic-stricken moments of the crew.
But unlike debris from the Challenger, some remnants will be available to researchers. Seven astronauts were killed aboard Columbia. Workers at Kennedy Space Center are packing up the 84,000 pieces of the space shuttle Columbia for storage. NASA has confirmed that a piece of the space shuttle Challenger has been found in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida, nearly 37 years after the shuttle exploded shortly after. “It’s too early, out of respect for the families of the deceased,” said Jim Hull, manager for exhibits and artifacts at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
NASA has made no decision on those requests either. CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida Artifacts recovered from the wreckages of NASAs Challenger and Columbia space shuttles are for the first time now on public display, part of a powerful new exhibit. “You have all this evidence here that can help.”īesides the Smithsonian, other museums and historical societies also have made requests for debris as have several towns that want to create their own memorials to Columbia. Watch divers discover Space Shuttle Challenger wreckage from 1986 Link Copied Divers searching for sunken World War II aircraft instead find space-age wreckage 00:56 - Source: CNN Stories. “You see some of the debris and you see why some pieces survived and others didn’t,” Kregel said.
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