An exhaustive NASA review of the Shuttle Columbia disaster revealed troubling details that the agency hopes will improve equipment and protocols for future space crews.
The space shuttle Columbia broke apart in flames 39 miles in the air as it streaked over Texas at 12,500 miles an hour toward its landing strip in Florida, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2003, killing all seven astronauts, six Americans and an Israeli.
A new NASA report released today details the chaotic final minutes of Columbia, which disintegrated over Texas on Feb. 1, 2003. The point of the 400-page analysis is to figure out how to make NASA's next spaceship more survivable. The report targeted problems with the spacesuits, restraints and helmets of the Columbia crew.
Many of the details about the astronauts' deaths have been known — they died either from lack of oxygen during pressure loss or from hitting something as the spacecraft tumbled and broke up.
However, the new report paints a more detailed picture of the final moments of the Columbia crew than the broader investigation into the accident five years ago.
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Source: TBO.com
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