Debris Photos (GRAPHIC)

Yahoo News photos ^ | 2/2/03 | freepers

[Mark Felton]

Post your debris field related photos here.

[Mark Felton]

REMNANTS FOUND: Another possible artifact from the shuttle landed in the Arriola-Cooke Cemetery off Texas Highway 7 in Nacogdoches County. (Staff Photo By D.J. Peters)

[petuniasevan]

Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster Archive

[EggsAckley]

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[Mark Felton]

I live in Clear Lake and we work for NASA. We have friends who are astronauts! One of them is due to go up on the next flight.

Do not DARE to lecture me about this you sanctimonious numbskull.

We want answers. We want truth. We want closure. Do NOT look at this thread if you have problems.

[John Jorsett]

How is posting these here any more inappropriate than the news organizations publishing them in the first place? This is just consolidating these items for people who want to see what's happening.

[KineticKitty]

Thank you for this thread, even as hard as it is to look at. I am in the process of trying to collect and save these photo's for a possible online memorial.(or something)

The helmet is heart wrenching, but says so much about this tragedy and the sacrifice these astronauts made.

[Mark Felton]

Admin: Please restore this to the Breaking News where I originally posted it and where it belongs. FR is concerned with truth, knowledge and understanding.

This thread is useless if it does not exist in the Breaking News or Front Page.

Since you removed it, must I assume you are not interested?

[M Kehoe]

Unfortunately, all of this must be cataloged, docuemented, archived, etc. so that a tragedy of this nature won't happen again.

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[John Jorsett]

A piece of the space shuttle Columbia lies on the side of Hwy 21 near Nacogdoches, Texas, February 1, 2003. Debris from space shuttle Columbia rained down onto fields and highways in Texas on Saturday, with witnesses coming across smoldering metal wreckage, including what appeared to be a door from the orbiter, local officials and eyewitnesses said. REUTERS/Richard Carson

[Will_Zurmacht]

I have no problem with this thread. I don't want to see remains, God knows, but the debris is significant. I am actually most caught up by the very American pictures. These are normal folks, farmers, families, all taking time out of their day to watch over and ponder these pieces of debris on their roads. Various members of a community sem to be gathering around the roped off areas and talking.In a way its very moving....

[Mark Felton]

The photos may help bring closure.

[tet68]

Thanks for this thread, some of these WILL be hard to view
but we must see them to KNOW.

9-11 look, see, and remember.

[nhoward14]

Thank you for this. Considering this occurred 40 miles up at 12500 mph and 3000F, it is amazing to see what did survive the rest of the trip down.

[isthisnickcool]

Please, I find this ugly. Why do this to ther people who are involved & the thousands in so many areas who have family & friends from NASA?

Take it easy. The 7 people lost yesterday were killed because they sought to learn. Their jobs, the jobs they choose, were to find the truth in their own dangerous work. Without striving to find the truth of things man would not be man.

The same thing applies to anyone wanting to discover the truth about what happened yesterday. Part of that is gathering evidence and looking at it. It's also the nature of man to be curious. Something you proved by coming here to this thread. And if you are reading this you came back again when you should have just stayed away if you have a problem with the content.

So use the off switch is you need to. That's is what it is for.

[ZinGirl]

I support your thread. I want to feel closer to those who were braver than I could ever be. I'll look at debris photos and cry for the families, friends, and everyone involved. I don't find it gruesome or tasteless. I also looked at photos of the WTC. How else can we remember? How else can we cope? Why else would people...strangers...be putting flowers and flags at a piece of metal other than to say, "I care...and I will honor you".

[Ditter]

If the pictures bother you ,don't look. This is a historic event, like the WTC, a tragedy to be sure, but interesting & something to remember. I doubt very much if the families of the astronauts are on FR looking at this. I would tell them the same thing, don't look.

[Momaw Nadon]