I haven’t posted much about the NASA investigation into the loss of the Columbia, mostly because there just hasn’t been much concrete news. However, this video of the Columbia breakup seen through the gun camera of an AH-64 Apache taken by Dutch pilots training in Fort Hood, Texas shows some remarkable detail, although I’m reminded of the voyeuristic morbidity of reliving the burning reentry over and over again in the days following the tragedy. Anyway, NASA is interested in the video because it has an accurate time-coding as well as exact aircraft coordinates, along with much better resolution than most cameras. Still, I wonder whether they’ll ever figure out exactly what caused the catastrophic destruction of the shuttle…
