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NASA Compiling Additional Video from Ground

Aired February 28, 2003 - 14:53   ET

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THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: If you were with us earlier this hour, you got to see some of the first -- for the first time publicly, the videotape that was made inside the cockpit of the shuttle as it was coming down. Well, now we understand that NASA is working with both some video, as well as some visual images in a very significant report that they are preparing right now for the public.
Let's go now to our John Zarrella, who is covering the story. He is in Miami -- John.

JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN MIAMI BUREAU CHIEF: Leon, that's exactly right. The Columbia accident investigation board has confirmed to us the existence of another tape. Now, this tape is a compilation of official video, of still photographs of amateur video, and it shows the shuttle vehicle as it passes across the sky from the Pacific Ocean all the way across to the point where it begins to break up. Now, U.S. Senator Bill Nelson from Florida told us just a little while ago that he has seen this videotape and on the videotape you can see the vehicle -- "shedding" is the word he used -- shedding material as it crosses over the Pacific Ocean as far west as the Pacific Ocean.

Again, it is a compilation of multiple sources, NASA and the accident investigation board has used star points in the sky, as well as time codes on the videos, and the still images to pinpoint at what point along the line these images were taken, and they have compiled it into a moving video.

What you're looking at, of course, there is the video that was released just a couple of hours ago by NASA, which is 13 minutes of videotape shot by a camera in the shuttle's cockpit there of the astronauts and, of course, that videotape stopped recording just four minutes before the vehicle began to heat up, and they began to experience problems and that was the only portion of the tape that was recovered. It was found in Palestine, Texas on February 6 -- Leon.

HARRIS: All right. Very interesting. Thank you, John. John Zarrella on the case for us in Miami.

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Aired February 28, 2003 - 14:53   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: If you were with us earlier this hour, you got to see some of the first -- for the first time publicly, the videotape that was made inside the cockpit of the shuttle as it was coming down. Well, now we understand that NASA is working with both some video, as well as some visual images in a very significant report that they are preparing right now for the public.
Let's go now to our John Zarrella, who is covering the story. He is in Miami -- John.

JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN MIAMI BUREAU CHIEF: Leon, that's exactly right. The Columbia accident investigation board has confirmed to us the existence of another tape. Now, this tape is a compilation of official video, of still photographs of amateur video, and it shows the shuttle vehicle as it passes across the sky from the Pacific Ocean all the way across to the point where it begins to break up. Now, U.S. Senator Bill Nelson from Florida told us just a little while ago that he has seen this videotape and on the videotape you can see the vehicle -- "shedding" is the word he used -- shedding material as it crosses over the Pacific Ocean as far west as the Pacific Ocean.

Again, it is a compilation of multiple sources, NASA and the accident investigation board has used star points in the sky, as well as time codes on the videos, and the still images to pinpoint at what point along the line these images were taken, and they have compiled it into a moving video.

What you're looking at, of course, there is the video that was released just a couple of hours ago by NASA, which is 13 minutes of videotape shot by a camera in the shuttle's cockpit there of the astronauts and, of course, that videotape stopped recording just four minutes before the vehicle began to heat up, and they began to experience problems and that was the only portion of the tape that was recovered. It was found in Palestine, Texas on February 6 -- Leon.

HARRIS: All right. Very interesting. Thank you, John. John Zarrella on the case for us in Miami.

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