![]() “We’re family, and we support each other … we’re going to continue to fly … and continue to do great things. “It’s a tough time, but we’re going to get through this,” Cabana said. NASA’s Cabana said that the space agency’s astronauts had been assigned to give support to the families of Columbia’s dead crew. Mission controllers at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, attempted for 16 minutes to contact the crew, but they heard only silence. At 9:00 am, communications with the ship suddenly stopped. The space shuttle Columbia broke apart on February 1, 2003, while re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven crew members. 11, 2001 terrorist attack on the Pentagon. A successful re-entry burn targeted Columbia to land at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida, at 9:16 am. The Columbia shuttle disaster was the last disaster in human space flight. As someone who lived in the middle of the debris field I can say my neighbor found a skull in his back yard and turned it over to the US Army. Carson Center for Mortuary Affairs at Dover Air Force Base also identified people who died in the Sept. Found in a field after the space shuttle Columbia disaster. TIL that after the Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart over Texas, a human heart belonging to one of the crew members was found. The remains will be analyzed at the same Dover, Del., center that identified the remains of the Challenger astronauts, who perished when their shuttle exploded after take-off in January 1986. An empty astronaut’s helmet also could contain genetic traces that will reveal who it belonged to. The remains recovered include a charred torso, thigh bone, a skull and leg. Police outside the town of Lufkin reportedly found some remains, and in Nacogdoches a man named William Pinkston said he had found human hair among debris in his yard. “We cannot avoid the obvious,” said Nacogdoches County Sheriff Thomas Kerss. “We’re honoring our fellow crewmates and we’re taking care of them.”Ĭabana’s announcement came as searchers spread out over a huge area to find and protect debris from the doomed shuttle.Įarlier yesterday, there had been reports of body parts found in Texas. “We are treating those remains with the ultimate respect and care that they deserve,” Cabana said. Six Americans and the first Israeli in space formed Columbia’s crew. Many of the dots on this map indicate debris from one of the Columbia’s wings, as that Jerry Ross just happened to be stationed at that section of the debris field where many of Columbia’s left wing pieces were recovered. Eli Connor, nine, ran from the porch of his house to see a fiery ball slowly. “We found remains from all the astronauts,” said NASA official Bob Cabana less than 32 hours after Columbia disintegrated almost 40 miles above Earth on Saturday morning.Ĭabana said the remains are “still in the process of identification.” In the legend, each colored dots indicates an item that was recovered from specific parts of the shuttle. It began with a deep rumble and a white streak across the wide open Texas sky. Remains of all seven Columbia space shuttle astronauts were found yesterday amid a debris field covering more than 500 square miles of Texas and Louisiana.
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