A CNN transcript of their coverage, three years ago today, when the space shuttle Columbia broke up on re-entry:
MILES O’BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: All right. Got a little problem on the space shuttle Columbia. It’s been out of communication now for the past 12 minutes. Let’s take a look at a live picture of Mission Control in Houston.
As we’ve been telling you all this morning, it is on its way in for a landing, and flight controllers there in Houston are busy going through their no-com procedures, in other words, lack of communication from the shuttle. They’ve been trying to raise the space shuttle Columbia for quite some time now.…
And at this juncture, we — I cannot tell you honestly the significance of it, except to tell you that the space shuttle Columbia was due for a landing right about now. We are watching this very closely.
More of the transcript, plus other related transcripts, can be found here.
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