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Glenn Mahone/Bob Jacobs
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-1600)
Eileen M. Hawley
Johnson Space Center, Houston
(Phone: 281/483-5111)
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Feb. 28, 2003 |
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NOTE TO EDITORS: N03-023
Flight-deck video, taken by members of the Space Shuttle Columbia
crew on Feb. 1, will be released at 1 p.m. EST today on NASA Television.
The videotape was recovered February 6 near Palestine, Texas, during
search and recovery efforts after the tragedy.
The video is about 13 minutes long and shows flight-deck activity
beginning about 8:35 a.m. EST as Columbia passed over the south
central Pacific Ocean at an altitude of approximately 500,000 feet.
It continues until approximately 8:48 a.m. EST, when Columbia was
over the eastern Pacific Ocean, southwest of the San Francisco Bay
area. The video ends approximately 11 minutes prior to loss of signal
between the orbiter and Mission Control.
Commander Rick Husband, Pilot Willie McCool, Mission Specialists
Kalpana Chawla and Laurel Clark were on the flight deck during reentry.
In the video, they can be heard conversing among themselves and
working through routine checklist activities with flight controllers
in Mission Control.
Mission Specialists Mike Anderson and Dave Brown, and Payload Specialist
Ilan Ramon were on Columbia's mid-deck during reentry. The video
was shot with a small onboard camera mounted to the right of McCool,
who then removes it and hands it to Clark for additional filming.
NASA Television is on GE-2, transponder 9C, and vertical polarization
at 85 degrees west longitude, 3880 MHz, with audio at 6.8 MHz.
More information about the Space Shuttle Columbia investigation
and NASA is available on the
NASA Home Page and the
Columbia Accident Investigation Board Home Page.
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