-for the second time in nasa s history, a space shuttle has been lost along with its entire crew. once again, we are asking ourselves, how could this have happened? -do you have any idea how big that piece of foam was that came off? -we d heard some reports that during launch there had been some concerns that some debris hit the wing. is that true and is that any cause of concern and that could have caused today s problems? -it is true. it was judged that, erm , that event did not represent a safety concern. -this happened under my watch, but i didn t have the answers. in every public forum i m gonna have to be in, how am i gonna explain this to anybody? at this time, we have no indication that the mishap was caused by anything or anyone on the ground. -nasa never wants to look stupid. nasa wants to be the agency with the answers. -my thoughts are on what we missed, what i missed to allow this to happen. -but if you overlook something, it will come to bite you one day or anot
-covering many hundreds of square miles. -it s the largest recovery effort that has ever been attempted in this country. -as an investigator, i wanted as ironclad a case as we could possibly have for the sequence of events leading to the cause of the crash of space shuttle columbia. but if we were going to do that, we needed to collect all the debris and reconstruct the shuttle. -1,200 sites have been identified. -all those pieces of columbia will be brought to the kennedy space center, where it will be reassembled in a manner of speaking. -really thousands of pieces of debris are now pieces to a puzzle. -under a crisp texas sky,
All those pieces of columbia will be brought to the kennedy space center, where it will be reassembled in a manner of speaking. Really thousands of pieces of debris are now pieces to a puzzle. Under a crisp texas sky, thousands of mourners are gathering, including that man, Neil Armstrong , as nasa gathers to say farewell to seven of its own. Knowing that i wasnt gonna see my dad again and losing that many people that you love and that youre close to all at once. It was just so heavy. The world just became a scary place. Just felt like i was so, like