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Slowly, investigators are piecing together the answers. Space-agency technicians have been scrutinizing the final, fragmentary transmissions that came from the disintegrating Columbia, particularly a telltale, 2-sec. scrap of data deciphered for the first time only last week. Analysts are also paying closer attention to the 13-min. videotape, recovered partly intact from the wreckage, that the crew made during re-entry. Perhaps most important, some former astronauts have been willing to speculate--cautiously--on what might have been taking place inside Columbia in the critical minutes after the video went black and before the ship was destroyed...
...videotape, which runs from 8:35 to 8:48 a.m. E.T.--ending about 11 min. before the ship was destroyed--shows the astronauts just where they ought to have been that late in the mission, with commander Rick Husband, pilot William McCool and crew members Laurel Clark and Kalpana Chawla strapped into their seats on the main flight deck. Crewmates Ilan Ramon, David Brown and Michael Anderson were out of view, similarly belted into place on the middeck below. When the tape begins, Chawla and Clark are finishing their suiting up, while Husband and McCool are busy flying the ship...
Shortly afterward, the video record ends, but things probably remained routine until 3 min. later--8 min. before the accident--when NASA got its first indication of what it dryly calls off-nominal aero increments. Translation: the shuttle was growing unstable because of the loss of insulating tiles, and the computer-controlled flaps were attempting to compensate. Inside the ship this would not have caused concern...
...MOVIEFONE The granddaddy of the bunch (started in 1989, now owned by TIME's parent company), it makes you sit through an annoying movie ad and then plow through some 20 prompts before completing the deal. Typical call time: 5 min. Web time: 2 min...
According to the study’s lead author, Associate Professor of Epidemiology I-Min Lee, the study doesn’t absolve the couch potato. But the same grueling workout routine might not be right for everyone...