Talk:Space Shuttle Columbia disaster

message: What do the co-ords 32°57'22"N 99°02'29"W (above the infobox in the lead) refer to? They aren't mentioned in the article. Recovery of debris mentions "south of Hemphill and west of Toledo Bend reservoir" ... that's about 520 km ESE of 32°57'22"N 99°02'29"W. Was the debris strewn over a great distance, starting at 32°57'22"N 99°02'29"W and ending south of Hemphill and west of Toledo Bend reservoir? Prisoner of Zenda (talk) 07:06, 20 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Co-ordinates 

message: FYI.  I mention this article (and the removal of the section about possible terrorism by ) here. --David Tornheim (talk) 00:12, 22 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article mentioned elsewhere 

message: Under "Cause", change "Damage to the left wing's edge" to "Damage to the left wing's leading edge" 100.11.106.65 (talk) 00:48, 9 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: no reason given for the proposed change. M.Bitton (talk) 18:58, 13 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: The change should be made, because that's what happened. The foam strike put a big hole in the RCC (Reinforced Carbon Carbon) panel on the left wing’s leading edge. This is covered extensively in the CAIB report and there's plenty of video of the test made during the accident investigation. 71.219.70.239 (talk) 03:25, 15 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Hey there @71.219.70.239, I'm not too involved with this particular discussion, but I'll point out that this Wikipedia article extensively covers the root cause of the disaster including the extent and location of the damage, and that the phrase "leading edge" is used four times in the article already. If you'd like I suppose you can put the words "leading edge" in there a few more times, just as long as its not too much. SpacePod9 (talk) 20:30, 16 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 9 December 2023 

message: : Why are there no photos of the re-entering debris anywhere in this article, especially as the infobox photo, which is often the very first thing most readers look at in a Wikipedia page after the title? There are no pictures like the "Apache" photo (see STS-107#Re-entry) or any others of the debris of Columbia re-entering the atmosphere, which I believe like the "two-headed" explosion of Challenger (see Space Shuttle Challenger disaster), is the most iconic and memorable scene of this tragic event. Instead the infobox photo is an unrelated landing of Columbia, which doesn't initially imply to the reader that this "disaster" is any more different from a normal shuttle mission, when that couldn't be further from the truth. Is the only reason just that there's a lack of these images on Wikimedia Commons at the moment? Could this article be supplemented by pictures and figures showing the breakup from the Columbia Accident Investigation Board's reports? SpacePod9 (talk) 05:26, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pictures of reentry / disintegration 

message: In "Recovery of debris" section, the text "About 40,000 recovered pieces of debris have never been identified" should be changed. The book "Bringing Columbia Home" (page 218) has the following info, with a reference to NASA reconstruction video:
Not sure whether a reference to an "unknown party" is needed, but it should be at least changed to something like "While in the end of June about 40,000 recovered pieces were marked as unidentified, only 720 items classified as unknown remained by the end of reconstruction efforts", with the "end of June" coming from the CAIB report that is already cited there SpacySpaces (talk) 14:33, 2 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 2 February 2024 

message: Could the BBC Two three-part documentary - The Space Shuttle That Fell to Earth - be added to the Legacy section? It featured interviews with NASA employees, journalists, and the families of the crew, and analysed the cause, build-up, and response to the disaster, as well as the NASA hierarchy. It began airing on the 12th February 2024. 
Thank you.
Programme Page
The Guardian Review (Lucy Mangan)
Financial Times Review (Dan Einav) 2A02:C7E:2839:4300:6AF:FC2B:40CF:29F1 (talk) 00:13, 22 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Semi-protected edit request on 22 February 2024