Last moments of the Space Shuttle Columbia
Very
good report on the disintegration and crash of the Space Shuttle. This is an excerpt of a much larger book.
Flight Director Paul Hill has a telling quote:
bq. "The most complicated machine ever built got knocked out of the sky by a pound and a half of foam. I don't know how any of us could have seen that coming. The message that sends me is, we are walking the razor's edge. This is a dangerous business and it does not take much to knock you off."
Posted by DaveH at January 27, 2004 12:14 PM