{"id":179,"date":"2003-02-14T22:54:31","date_gmt":"2003-02-15T03:54:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2003-02-14T22:54:31","modified_gmt":"2003-02-15T03:54:31","slug":"statement-by-the-columbia-accident-investigation-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"STATEMENT BY THE COLUMBIA ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION BOARD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>     Note: The CAIB has asked NASA for administrative support to release information to the public and the media. The following statement was provided by the CAIB for release.<\/p>\n<p>Thermal Analysis Shows Hot Plasma Possible in Columbia Left Wheel Well Area<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nPreliminary analysis by a NASA working group this week indicates that the temperature indications seen in Columbia&#8217;s left wheel well during entry would require the presence of plasma (super heated gas surrounding the orbiter during re-entry).<\/p>\n<p>Heat transfer through the structure as from a missing tile would not be sufficient to cause the temperature indications seen in the last minutes of flight.<\/p>\n<p>Additional analysis is underway, looking at various scenarios in which a breach of some type, allowing plasma into the wheel well area or elsewhere in the wing, could occur.<\/p>\n<p>Other flight data including gear position indicators and drag information does not support the scenario of an early deployment of the left gear.<\/p>\n<p>The search continues for possible debris from Columbia in the western U.S., but as of early Thursday, no debris further west than Ft. Worth, Texas has been confirmed as Shuttle-related.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Note: The CAIB has asked NASA for administrative support to release information to the public and the media. The following statement was provided by the CAIB for release. Thermal Analysis&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-NASA"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}