Does he mean lock the doors on the space shuttle that s falling down or does he mean lock the doors in the nasa building in order to begin some internal investigation and nobody is allowed to leave as a matter of policy.
Lock the doors nasa.
Why does the nasa flight director say lock the doors when realizing that disaster had struck for space shuttle columbia back in 2003.
James hartsfield nasa public affairs representative leroy cain flight director view the video stream.
Space shuttle columbia disaster from nasa tv 2nd.
Leroy cain nasa s flight director in mission control during the columbia disaster told flight controllers to lock the doors just after it became apparent that the space shuttle had suffered a.
It is a few minutes past 9 a m.
Est on feb 1.
Lock the doors remember what happened at that moment.
Lock the doors cain ordered initiating contingency procedures in mission control for the first time since the challenger disaster 17 years before.
Est this view of a tense mission control was acquired a quarter of an hour after the first sign of trouble and a minute ahead of columbia s expected landing.
Lock the doors words that marked loss of hope for shuttle.
And when i put that information with the known.
Remembering columbia s final return to earth by ben evans on february 1st 2015 as evidenced by the clock on the main screen at 14 15 05 gmt 9 15 05 a m.