from space shuttle columbia as columbia continues to orbit the earth at an altitude of about 150 statute miles. columbia, houston, laurel, you re loud and clear on air to ground one. -the second day, i drive in to work kind of euphoric because another launch, another successful launch. you know, the flight director s office and the mission control center in houston is working with them. they re everything s good. i walked into the analysis lab to start reviewing film from the launch. we started the film at the beginning. [ rockets roaring ]
worst case would have been damage all the way down to the skin of the vehicle. that would have given us a problem during landing. well, that probably would have been loss of vehicle and loss of crew. so i went to see wayne, my boss. -based on my 20-plus years of experience, i can tell you every shuttle flight that flew had issues. people came to me as a flight director or as manager every day. in this case, bob page knocked on my door, came in my office, and said. - we ve got a problem. this is the largest strike of the vehicle that we have ever seen. -he s a little bit of a high-energy guy, so it wasn t unusual, i didn t think. but he had a little video clip that he showed me.
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