Mission Control Lock The Doors

Leroy cain nasa s flight director in mission control during the columbia disaster told flight controllers to lock the doors just after it became apparent that the space shuttle had suffered a.

Mission control lock the doors.

All controllers are to begin saving their telemetry for the investigators. It is a few minutes past 9 a m. Lock the doors this meant nobody could. Lock the doors means there is no longer an emergency.

One minute ago flight comes the response from richard jones flight dynamics officer. It begins a freeze isolate and protect process. Gc lock the doors that is a command that initiates the contingency response to a significant incident such as the loss of a vehicle. Inside the mission operations control room a freezing cold space in houston that smelled like coffee and so much tobacco that a cloud of smoke would draft out when the door opened that.

It means the crew of a spaceship is dead. After checking with jones that no further tracking had been acquired cain referred his team to their contingency plans the plans that they and the sts 107 crew had worked in training but. If you are referring to the call from the flight director. Lock the doors cain ordered initiating contingency procedures in mission control for the first time since the challenger disaster 17 years before.

Timeline of events in space shuttle columbia left wing during failed re entry of sts 107 duration. Finally mr cain says the phrase that marked the lack of hope. At 9 12 a m he instructed ground control officer bill foster to lock the doors a de facto admission that all hope was gone and ordered flight controllers not to leave the building but to begin preserving their data and writing up their logbook notes for use in the subsequent investigation.