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SPACE SHUTTLE IRAGEDY
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LAURIE MCLEMORE reads to her daughter Katelyn, 8, a message left at a makeshift Astronomer Anthony Beasley, a pro- stand thousands of feet high.
memorial to the fallen shuttle astronauts on Wednesday at the entrance to the Johnson manager at the California These are some of the most sparse-
Dittemore ^dW^da^iXston" SpaceRenter in Houston. As.recovery teams scout the east Texas pineywoods for shut- obSe™watehXm his America’’tesaid^’Thte thing could"be
mac a u.u-,. tie debris, the memorial at the sates of the soace center continues to grow. home in remote B;shop [)n the east side
sitting out among two clumps of sage-
of the Sierra Nevada as the shuttle brush and won’t be found for 50 years.”
soared across the dark sky. About the same time Beasley was
Beasley noted three flashes in the watching, Jay Lawson was videotaping
Within hours he had written a detailed Sparks. Nev. He said the tape showed a
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FRED GONZALEZ of the San Bernadino County Sheriff's Dept, on
Wednesday holds a possible piece of space shuttle Columbia debris
found Saturday by Robert Beggs outside his house in Joshua Tree,
Calif. NASA has sent a team to California to inspect the material that
might be part of one of Columbia’s wings.
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By JOHN ANTCZAK
The Associated Press
LOS ANGELES - West Coast
astronomers’ accounts and home videos
of Columbia as it streaked over
California are adding up to evidence
that the shuttle began to break up well
before it reached Texas.
Columbia's sensors showed a sharp
(ise in temperature as the spacecraft
headed over land from the Pacific, and ,
NASA said it may have found a piece of
the wing in.California.
Despite locating thousands of pieces
of the shuttle in Texas and Louisiana,
NASA officials hoped to find clues to
the earliest moments of the accident in
the far West because Columbia's flight
was normal until somewhere more than
200,000 feet over California.
“If we found debris in California,
Arizona, New Mexico along the ground
path, certainly that would be a signifi- Associated Press photo/joe cavaretta es> in me ruggect wilderness, wnere peaKs
tion,” shuttle program manager Ron memorial to the fallen shuttle astronauts on Wednesday at the entrance to the Johnson j of Technology’s Owens Valley ly populated counties in North
Dittemore said Wednesday in Houston. Renter in Houston. Asrecovery teams scout the east Texas pineywoods for shut- Radjo observatory, watched from his America," he said. “This thing could be
NASA was calculating where debris tle debrls-the memorial at the gates of the space center continues to grow. home jn remote B?shop on the east sjde sitting out among two clumps of sage-
falling from such a high altitude and at of the Sierra Nevada as the sliuttle brush and won’t be found for 50 years.”
such high speed would land. The poten- . r . , ’ soared across the dark sky. About the same time Beasley was
tial footprint was large and “it’s going were watching as Columbia swep west of California s midsection-from near Beasley jn the watching. Jay Lawson was video;aping
to take us some time” to search, to east over California shortly before 6 San Francisco, across the Central Valley brightness of the streaking shuttle, about 160 miles to the northwest in
Dittemore said. He welcomed public a m- PSTSaturday — about six min- and the Sierra Nevada mountains. Within hours he had written a detailed Sparks, Nev. He said the tape showed a '
reports of possible debris. utes before it disintegrated over Texas. Amateur astronomer Rick Baldridge report that noted he was aware shuttles bright Hash and an object trailing slight- '
Despite the early hour, many people It was traveling on a line slightly north photographed and videotaped sometimes lost thermal tiles during ly behind the shuttle.
ught on videotape
tore shelf and turn-
ed merchandise for
lole $38. The inci-
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Columbia as it passed over San Jose, landing and he immediately thought he
south of San Francisco. He said the might have seen that.
video showed flares of light that "Possibly saw secondary material in
appeared to be parts breaking off the trail immediately after,” he wrote of the
shuttle.
Another amateur astronomer made a
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San Francisco that showed a snake of clearly a new trail formed ... directly
purplish light corkscrewing through the behind the orbiter” and what seemed to
shuttle’s hot glowing trail, the San be “a main piece and a few smaller
Francisco Chronicle reported bits" fell behind and appeared to fall, he
Wednesday. A former astronaut collect- wrote.
ed the camera from the photographer, The third flash appeared the brightest
who requested anonymity pending to Beasley. -
NASA’s analysis. “Very clear view of object detaching,
“They are going to see if there’s any - forming separate trail. Looked like
thing in the camera that could have orbiter dropped a flare or something,"
caused the blur,” said NASA spokes- he wrote.
woman Katherine Watson. “They are Beasley said in interviews that he
I going to see if it's real or if it’s an arti- believes his sighting and others could
fact." be used to estimate a location where an
She said NASA has receiver! 1,300 object fell. But he cautioned that actual-
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By PAULINE ARRILLAGA they might have played in the
and JOSEPH B. VERRENGIA disaster, NASA spokesman Rob
The Associated Press Navias noted.
NACOGDOCHES, Texas -
Despite gathering more than moSaic looks like," Navias said.
12,000 pieces of debris from the q'|)e shuttle was composed of
shuttle Columbia, a NASA offi- about 2 million parts, many of
cial said Wednesday none of the which shattered into pieces as
pieces provides critical answers smaI1 as a nickel
for why the shuttle broke up. Bill Waldock of Embry-
We do not have any red-tag Bidd|e Aeronaulical University
items,” said Ron Dittemore, jn Arizona said any of the craft’s
shuttle program manager, refer- 20,000 insulating tiles or metal
ring to items engineers have components from the left wing
identified as crucial to the inves- wouid be significant,
tigation into the cause. At least two possible wing
He Said those items would sections have been discovered in
include parts of the left wing, east Texas, although authorities
data recorders and certain pieces djd not know from which side of I
of insulation and tiles. the shuttle they caine. A robotic I
The widening search now underwater camera was brought I
extends from Louisiana to jn Wednesday to help search a I
California. reservoir along the Texas- I
In Texas alone, officials have Louisiana border where there I
identified 38 counties with were reports of debris the size of I
debris, while pieces have turned a small car falling. I
up in two dozen Louisiana A patch of foam insulation I
parishes. And NASA investiga- that broke off from the shuttle’s I
tors are checking California and external fuel tank during launch I
Arizona for debris as well. and struck tiles on the underside I
“The scale makes it unprece- of the left wing is being studied I
dented,” said Dave Bary, a as one of the possible causes of I
spokesman for the Columbia’s destruction. I
Environmental Protection The insulating tiles protect the I
Agency, which is overseeing the underbelly and the wings of the I
collection of debris. He noted shuttle from searing heat. Each I
that even in other major disasters is stenciled with a code to tell I
— the attacks on the World engineers where it was located I
Trade Center and the Pentagon, on the craft. Tiles that peeled off I
the explosion of space shuttle the left wing are considered cru-
Challenger — the recovery sites cial to the probe,
were restricted to a central loca- Waldock said some pieces,
tion. such as the nose cone, could
In this case, “the debris field help investigators rule out other
is so large — covering so many potential causes of the disaster,
counties — I can’t think of any- “It didn’t look like the nose cone
thing historically that would had much thermal damage at all;
compare to this," he said. it’s not even really scorched, he
That could delay meaningful said. "It means that area was not
analysis of those parts that have exposed to the high tempera-
been collected — and what role tures.”
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