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It looks like STS107 has disintegrated during reentry, at over 200,000' and moving at some 12,500mph. Communications with the ship were lost at approximately 2:15pm GMT. Debris trails have been spotted over Texas. The craft should have landed by now, and as Shuttles re-entert in an unpowered glide, there is no-where else it can have gone; it cannot "go around" like an airliner. We must assume it has been destroyed, almost certainly by catastrophic failure.
There were 7 crew including the first Israeli in space.
It's the 1st ever crew loss on reentry in 42 years of NASA spaceflight. This may well be the end of the US space effort and possibly the human effort in space. We - the human race - might just have lost our future.
The BBC has in the last few minutes put up a story on news.bbc.co.uk; expect nasa.gov to die shortly.
And as Simon observes, the Americans may well blame Al Quaeda.
spride:It looks like STS107 has disintegrated during reentry, at over 200,000' and moving at some 12,500mph. Communications with the ship were lost at approximately 2:15pm GMT. Debris trails have been spotted over Texas. The craft should have landed by now, and as Shuttles re-entert in an unpowered glide, there is no-where else it can have gone; it cannot "go around" like an airliner. We must assume it has been destroyed, almost certainly by catastrophic failure.
There were 7 crew including the first Israeli in space.
It's the 1st ever crew loss on reentry in 42 years of NASA spaceflight. This may well be the end of the US space effort and possibly the human effort in space. We - the human race - might just have lost our future.
The BBC has in the last few minutes put up a story on news.bbc.co.uk; expect nasa.gov to die shortly.
And as Simon observes, the Americans may well blame Al Quaeda.
