If Columbia crew had only spotted the 'UFO' -- their RCC fragment drifting away....

Msnbc.com (Oberg): How to crack weird space cases

Lone sleuth uses the Internet and his wits to solve UFO mysteries

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7822879/





By James Oberg, NBC News space analyst // Special to MSNBC

Updated: 6:48 p.m. ET May 12, 2005



HOUSTON - When a space station astronaut made an offhand remark about an
unusual formation of lights he saw passing in front of him during a
spacewalk, the report had all the earmarks of an unsolvable space mystery.
But it didn't take long to crack the case, thanks to the power of the
Internet and one amateur space sleuth's passion to find out.

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JimO shuttle-related comment:



In one tragic oversight, the crew of Columbia in January 2003 failed to
spot a broken piece of their heat shield drifting away a day after they
reached orbit (http://www.msnbc.com/news/887192.asp?0cv=TA01), thus missing
a chance to realize how badly their spaceship had been damaged during
launch.




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