NASA's Lost Shuttle

[Storm Wolf]

JOHNSON SPACE CENTER, Texas, Feb. 1 — With the nation watching in grief and horror, NASA began the gut-wrenching process Saturday of trying to find out why the space shuttle Columbia plummeted to Earth in flames in central Texas, taking the lives of all seven astronauts aboard.

NASA Administrator Sean O’Keefe said Columbia broke up in flames as it re-entered the Earth’s atmosphere, spreading debris over hundreds of miles of Texas, just 16 minutes before the 100-ton shuttle was to have landed at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.



It was all over the news today and I just wanted to see how many people knew that it had happened and if they wanted to hold a conversation on it. I've already begun to hear rumors about the tiles being damaged, and that NASA didn't repair them like they should have. I seen most of the footage taken of it, when it started to break apart over Texas...and quite frankly I was stunned, it has been so long since a shuttle has come to an unfortunate end such as this. Well if you have any extra info on it, it will be appriciated....