-my wife, laurel, was on the shuttle. she was a scientist primarily involved with life sciences. one day during the mission, i was reviewing the notes, and then here s this foam issue. during launch, a large piece of foam had come off the external tank and impacted the left wing. me and my colleague had this discussion of, hey, you can use a family conference to talk to laurel and find out what she knew. -oh! -you got to remember the hat you re wearing is your flight-surgeon hat, not your family hat. it would have broken protocol for me to bring up an issue to a crew member, even though it s my wife. -i remember a certain sense of relief like, it s almost over. she s almost back. -i didn t talk to laurel about the foam issue. that conference was for iain and laurel, and i was a bystander. -i knew she was going to come back. you know, i never had a question in my mind. -given the fact that you may have lost a little bit of tile during lift-off, i m wondering
and as a 9-year-old, i didn t really understand what that meant. and so, in my mind, i was like, mom, like, what does that mean? what does that mean? i was waiting for someone to explain. but then it was just. everything just fell apart. [ voice breaking ] the shuttle wasn t coming home. dad wasn t coming home. sorry. -people waking up to this horrible news. -quite frankly, i turned and looked across a big, open, ploughed field. and there in fact is a piece of smoking wreckage. -this blackened material letting out white-hot smoke. -there s some rubber burning in our pasture. -they re reporting a piece of wreckage came through an apartment roof and started a fire.
People waking up to this horrible news. Quite frankly, i turned and looked across a big, open, ploughed field. And there in fact is a piece of smoking wreckage. This blackened material letting out whitehot smoke. Theres some Rubber Burning in our pasture. Theyre reporting a piece of wreckage came through an Apartment Roof and started a fire. Right now, nasa will be trying to make sense of what happened in the skies over texas. Searching for wreckage from the columbia shuttle, theyve already made hundreds of finds, from tiny scraps of metal to whole panels. And the tragic, but inevitable discovery of human remains. A spacecraft breaking up at 190,000 feet its something you couldnt, like, get out of your mind
The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
PHILIP BRAHAM’S new exhibition is prompted, he says, by reflections on suicide.
In it, solitary trees stand out against poisonous skies, while stony paths wander into the centre of the composition and go nowhere.
The whole enterprise recalls the gloomy romanticism of the 19th-century German painter Caspar David Friedrich, whom Braham cites as a major influence.
Friedrich’s graveyards, ruined abbeys and visions of an icy wasteland fitted the bill when the Nazis required a new template for art to fill the galleries and to give the individual under totalitarianism the illusion that they had a soul.