Columbia Shuttle Crew Not Told of Possible Problem With Reentry

GINA SUNSERI
abcnews.go.com
February 1, 2013

What would you tell seven astronauts if you knew their space shuttle was crippled on orbit?

It was a question that faced NASA’s Mission Control considered after initial suspicions that something might be wrong with the shuttle Columbia as it was making its doomed reentry in 2003.

Wayne Hale, who later became space shuttle program manager, struggled with this question after the deaths of the Columbia crew 10 years ago. Recently he wrote about the debate in his blog, recalling a meeting to discuss the dilemma:

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This article was posted: Friday, February 1, 2013 at 1:03 pm

Tags: science, technology

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