# Shuttle Columbia MIA?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shuttle-columbia-mia/152095>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [February 1, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shuttle-columbia-mia/152095 "2003-02-01T14:28:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shuttle-columbia-mia/152095/1 "2003-02-01T14:28:33Z")

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Watching Fox News, NASA saying that STS Columbia has lost comms during landing. No tracking on shuttle, is overdue by quite a bit for comms. Real bad, it seems.

‘Multiple targets’ were seen burning up in the sky over Texas. Really really bad. Hope it’s not what it seems to be.  
(Duplicate of Pit post, but seems more appropriate here?)

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**Author:** ![Brutus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Brutus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brutus)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shuttle-columbia-mia/152095/2 "2003-02-01T14:34:11Z")

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Just saw the video on CNN. One bright ‘comet’ breaks up into multiple burning streaks, most of which burn out quickly. One large ‘comet’ keeps streaking in.

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**Author:** ![brachyrhynchos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/brachyrhynchos/32/376_2.png) [@brachyrhynchos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brachyrhynchos)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shuttle-columbia-mia/152095/3 "2003-02-01T14:34:50Z")

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This is bad. CBS says NASA is “securing their data” which apparently means they think she went down.

Now CBS is showing video of something coming apart over Texas.

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**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shuttle-columbia-mia/152095/4 "2003-02-01T14:54:57Z")

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Not looking good. NASA is now scrambling search and rescue teams.

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**Author:** ![Kbean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Kbean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kbean)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shuttle-columbia-mia/152095/5 "2003-02-01T15:06:52Z")

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Holy…

I can’t bear to watch this…

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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shuttle-columbia-mia/152095/6 "2003-02-01T15:12:21Z")

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There’s a thread started in MPSIMS.

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**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2003, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shuttle-columbia-mia/152095/7 "2003-02-01T15:33:45Z")

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There’s a thread in MPSIMS; therefore, we don’t need another in IMHO.