[meteorite-list] List member witnesses Columbia re-entry

From: Frederick N. Ley <fnley_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu Apr 22 10:18:24 2004
Message-ID: <000401c2ca20$b696b710$35c4ddd1_at_fredos>

Hi Bob,

I was going to watch it, but got up ten minutes to late.
I need to check with a friend who was going to take
video of it going by in Lancaster, CA.
A sad day indeed.

Fred Ley
IMCA9181

----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Verish" <bolidechaser_at_yahoo.com>
To: "Meteorite-list Meteoritecentral" <meteorite-list_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 8:42 AM
Subject: [meteorite-list] List member witnesses Columbia re-entry


> I got the phone call early this morning, from Rob
> Matson, giving me the horrible news. According to
> Rob, he was driving north on US15 in the Victorville
> area of the Mojave Desert when he observed the Space
> Shuttle Columbia early in its re-entry. Rob reported
> that "all appeared normal at this point in Columbia's
> fight path". The early morning sunlight was
> reflecting off of "the plasma cloud that the Space
> Shuttle normally forms during its decent".
>
> Rob did not see anything abnormal occurring during the
> portion of the decent that he witnessed, and had no
> indication of the disaster that was to occur over
> Texas until he heard on the radio that the Space
> Shuttle was "still late for its arrival at the Cape"!
>
> Given the time of morning, Rob was one of the last few
> people who saw Columbia still in one piece before its
> tragic break-up and disintegration over Texas.
>
> (Please note that I didn't use the term "explosion",
> since it would be inaccurate and misleading.)
>
> Regretfully,
> Bob V.
>
>
>
>
>
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