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| Space vehicles belonging to the United States exploded in the air 16 minutes before landing, |
Liputan6.com, Texas - On this day February 1 2003, became a tragic end for the space mission with the space shuttle Columbia. Space vehicles belonging to the United States exploded in the air 16 minutes before landing, while landing at the Kennedy Space Center Station, Florida, United States. Seven-astronaut crew Columbia confirmed dead.
Officials with the National Space Agency (NASA) said the accident occurred when the aircraft was made in 1981, at an altitude of 60 thousand feet of earth at a speed of 20 thousand kilometers / hour. Before exploding, this aircraft has just completed the 28th mission, after takeoff on January 16, 2003.
As reported by the History Channel, Sunday (01/02/2015), mentioned the Columbia disaster caused by a piece of foam the size of the bag that crashed aircraft wing and left a hole in the protective tiles, making the plane vulnerable when penetrating the atmosphere.
The space shuttle Columbia fell over the California coastline. Debris was the first spacecraft began falling in west Texas near Lubbock.
Residents in the area heard a loud explosion and saw smoke lines in the sky. Debris and remains of the crew was found in more than 2,000 locations throughout East Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana.
10 years after the tragedy, former high-ranking US space agency (NASA) finally blow the whistle. At that time, shortly before the plane exploded, NASA's mission control center of the earth may know that Columbia will meet with disaster, and the crew would likely not survive.
As published by ABC News, Wayne Hale, who later became manager of the shuttle program spacecraft, wrote in his blog about the fateful day.
He explained that, at that time director Jon Harpold argues, "There's nothing we can do about the damage TPS (Thermal Protection System). I thought the crew did not need to know. Would it not be better for them to fly home feeling happy and then died unexpectedly when entering the Earth, rather than remain in orbit, knowing there is nothing that can be done, until the oxygen supply runs out? "
The dilemma for the manager's mission is, despite knowing there is a collision on the aircraft wings, they do not know whether the aircraft is damaged and how much damage. Experts on dry land then decided it would be better if the crew does not know about these risks
Moreover, there is no way to repair the damage. The aircraft was far International Space Station (ISS) and had no robotic arm to fix it. Alternatively, send another plane to rescue the crew, impossible.
The seven astronauts who died in service will be remembered back in a 10-year commemoration of the disaster Columbia at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
They are Rick D Husband, William C. McCool, Michael P Anderson, Ilan Ramon, David Brown, Laurel Salton Clark, and Kalpana Chalwa - India's first woman astronaut.
Although it has long passed, the crew of Columbia was never forgotten. Immortalized everywhere - including in the sky.
From asteroids, craters on the Moon, Mars Hill, names of schools, parks, roads, and even airports. One was Rick Husband Amarillo International Airport - which bears the name of Columbia astronauts.
The tragedy happened in the Philippines on the same date in 1814. Mount Mayon in the Philippines erupted, the worst eruption of the volcano. Approximately 1,200 people were killed. While on February 1, 1884 Oxford English Dictionary first published. (Tnt / Riz)
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