The Columbia is no more.

[Bill Humphries]

On Saturday, February 1, 2003, at 08:55 AM, Tom wrote:

> There is video being played on tv now that is showing a trail in the 
> sky
> of a fireball/streak. Texas seemes to be the debris site.

I'm in Dallas for my dad's 80th birthday. Writing from the Starbucks 
down the street.

We heard the sonic boom around 8am. It did shake the windows.

WFAA had a crew out to capture the reentry, and they caught the whole 
sad incident on film.

Ironically, the debris fell in the town of Palestine.

Dad and I watched the video with a self-imposed clinical distance, it 
seemed to be the best way to handle it.

>
> Now they have reports of a "spy satalite" showing a heat pike that 
> matches
> the SSTs flight path.
>
> ug ugh

A sad day for space flight. But probably a great day if you build Souyz 
capsules.

-- whump