Glenn Mahone/Bob Jacobs<br />Headquarters, Washington Feb. 28, 2003<br />(Phone: 202/358-1600)<br /><br />Eileen M. Hawley<br />Johnson Space Center, Houston<br />(Phone: 281/483-5111)<br /><br />NOTE TO EDITORS: N03-23<br /><br />NASA RELEASES COLUMBIA CREW CABIN VIDEO<br /><br /> Flight-deck video, taken by members of the Space Shuttle <br />Columbia crew on Feb. 1, will be released at 1 p.m. EST today <br />on NASA Television. The videotape was recovered February 6 <br />near Palestine, Texas, during search and recovery efforts <br />after the tragedy. <br /><br />The video is about 13 minutes long and shows flight-deck <br />activity beginning about 8:35 a.m. EST as Columbia passed <br />over the south central Pacific Ocean at an altitude of <br />approximately 500,000 feet. It continues until approximately <br />8:48 a.m. EST, when Columbia was over the eastern Pacific <br />Ocean, southwest of the San Francisco Bay area. The video <br />ends approximately 11 minutes prior to loss of signal between <br />the orbiter and Mission Control.<br /><br />Commander Rick Husband, Pilot Willie McCool, Mission <br />Specialists Kalpana Chawla and Laurel Clark were on the <br />flight deck during reentry. In the video, they can be heard <br />conversing among themselves and working through routine <br />checklist activities with flight controllers in Mission <br />Control. <br /><br />Mission Specialists Mike Anderson and Dave Brown, and Payload <br />Specialist Ilan Ramon were on Columbia's mid-deck during <br />reentry. The video was shot with a small onboard camera <br />mounted to the right of McCool, who then removes it and hands <br />it to Clark for additional filming. <br /><br />NASA Television is on GE-2, transponder 9C, and vertical <br />polarization at 85 degrees west longitude, 3880 MHz, with <br />audio at 6.8 MHz. <br /><br />More information about the Space Shuttle Columbia <br />investigation and NASA is available on the Internet at: <br />www.nasa.gov <br />and <br />www.caib.us<br />-end-