Thursday, August 4, 2011

Found fragments of the shuttle Columbia

For many Americans, will be remembered first in February 2003, it was then caught fire when landing the space shuttle Columbia and fell to the ground, causing the entire crew of 7 people killed. Causes of the accident indicate that thermal protection was damaged and caught fire in the fuel compartment because of what and the explosion occurred. Would be expected from a ship that was made 28 flights and flew over the earth about 4,500 times. Below the video are unique shots were filmed eyewitnesses, the collapse of the space shuttle Columbia.

And after 8 years in eastern Texas were found fragments of Columbia, confirmed thatexperts from NASA, the photo below you can see an aluminum capsule that had beenflooded and the inside is full of mud, it was found the locals in the area of ​​LakeNacogdoches about 160 miles from Houston .

Spherical compartment shuttle which was found in the lake will be transported toKennedy Space Center, where he was placed in a special compartment with fullclimate control in order to prolong the storage of debris the world's first space shuttle.

We often get calls or emails from people who think they found fragments of the space shuttle Columbia, but not always, they have a right and this is distracting our staff from their main job at this time we were lucky. - NASA officials said Lisa Malo. - Now we address the issue of transport in the wreckage Space Center. Kennedy.

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