Debris Photos (GRAPHIC)

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[Howlin]

Is that drifting northeast?

[Howlin]

From another photo, different angle:

Astronaut Mark Kelly, right, carries a piece of debris from the space shuttle Columbia as he and fellow astronaut Greg Johnson

[kms61]

That would be a Coast Guard helicopter.

[Lady Jag]

Debris from the space shuttle Columbia streaks across the sky over Tyler, Texas, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2003. (AP Photo/Tyler Morning Telegraph, Dr. Scott Lieberman)

[Lady Jag]

Tiffany Barney, 19, of Friendswood, Texas, places flowers at the entrance of the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2003, in Clear Lake, Texas. (AP Photo)

[Lady Jag]

A piece of charred cloth, possibly debris from the space shuttle Columbia, lies along U.S. Highway 84, west of Rusk, Texas. (HERB NYGREN JR./TYLER MORNING TELEGRAPH)

[Mark Felton]

The poisons will be contained with some cells and may not have leaked out until the debris has significantly slow down (no longer at "burn" kinds of speeds.

Also, some materials give off toxic fumes and resins when heated. Paints, glues, special rubbers, plastics, fuel cell material may leave acids, alkali, or other types of dangerous residues.

[Lady Jag]

A charred piece debris believed to be from the space shuttle Columbia lies on the patio of a home in Nacogdoches, Texas. (AP)

[mommadooo3]

You mean the SUNFLOWER is OURS??????

Whoooweee. You ARE a genius! Betcha didn't know that the 'face' of a sunflower will follow the Son/sun throughout the day.

There are now seven faces facing the Son...following Him.

In our family we 'give' a sunflower to our loved ones who have gone Home. Their faces behold the Son.

[amom]

Is that drifting northeast?

Appears so.

[virgil]

Thanks for the video. It looks like ice to me and it turned to water when it got close to the flame. It also looks like it may have fell on SRB too. They retrieve those and re-use them, right? Maybe they should look at those.

[Lady Jag]

A marked piece of what is believed debris from the space shuttle Columbia, lies on the ground in Alto, Texas, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2003. (AP Photo/Longview News-Journal, Les Hassell)

[michigander]

Slideshows of images here, here, here.

[Vermont Lt]

Perhaps someone can answer a question. If this stuff fell from 200,000+ feet, how come it just comes to rest? How come it doesn't drill into the ground. Some of this stuff looks pretty substantial, yet it looks like it just fell from ten feet or so.

By the way...I think looking at this stuff is fine. Yeah, I'd rather not see the human remains, but doesnt look much worse than stuff I've seen after car wrecks. Yes, when you consider people lost their lives it takes on a more solemn tone, but overall these are not that "graphic."

[Lady Jag]

Thank you. I'm looking for a very large piece of debris I saw on TV yesterday and can't find it anywhere. It was about the size of a small car. Meanwhile I'm posting anything new I find.

[nmh]

The Admin Moderator has already deleted a series of posts like yours complaining about this thread. Stop complaining and DO NOT CLICK ON THE THREAD if you do not wish to see photos of the debris recovery effort.

I also have a First Amendment right and I excercis is accordingly. Just because someone tries to negate criticism of morbid fascinantion of debris in their title matters not to me. It doesn't excuse the poor taste in gloating over a tragedy. THAT is inexcusable.

We are US taxpayers. We have a right to view public photos available widely on the web from news organizations on the cleanup effort. You have a right not to click on this thread.

Being a taxpayer has nothing to do with MORBID entertainment. Yes, I know some taxpayers are pedaphiles too, yet that also is wrong for different reasons. I puroposely clicked on this thread to sober people up and remind them of what is the decent thing to do - honor the dead and not the debris.
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This thread simply gathers photos from news organizations regarding the cleanup and centralizes them in one place. If you don't like it....do not click on the thread.

Who cares WHERE the photos are from. Huslter has photos of women, websites have photos of sadism - according to your logic they should be postable as well. You truly have no bounds of decency.

[Mark Felton]

Could be. If you look real close a soild piece comes out beneath the wing (very faint).

It took me several views before I caught that solid piece coming out the bottom. In other words it looks a bit like the solid piece came in from the top, glanced off the wing and continued straight down, while the vapor spray was ejected out at an angle off to one side.

Then again the vapor may have been the water from the ice and the hard object coming out the bottom may have been a tile.

It's a shame that the little camera that was a novelty a couple of flights ago wasn't installed. It was attached to the fuel tank looking down at the shuttle.

[NCLaw441]

I lived in France (in the Pyrenees-Atlantiques region) in 1980-81, during the end of the hostage crisis in Iran, the election and subsequent assassination attempt on President Reagan. The French, by and large, admire and respect America and Americans, and the older French remain thankful for the U.S. for saving them in WWI and WWII. The French government and many dissident factions are envious of America and what we have accomplished as well as the FACT that American assistance was required to rescue them twice in the last century. I am ashamed of the positions of France and Germany as we seek their support regarding Iraq, but I suspect that most of the French people support us.

[nmh]

HONOR THE PEOPLE NOT THE DEBRIS.

we are honoring the people.....unfortunately they are not with us anymore. All we have left is the debris.

I don't equate debris with people. These were fine people. The parts of Columbia in no way shape or form represents these honorable men and women. It is all that is left of Columbia but photos and memories of these fine people is what lives on; not what carried them to space.

Putting flowers or a flag next to a piece of metal which once held our friends, family, countrymen, and heros is all we can do. Posting pictures of people guarding over all we have left is a way to share the caring and compassion that brings people together.

Metal is metal. It doesn't represent these fine people. If you saw that same piece of metal in a junkyard you'd wouldn't be able to distinguish it from other "debris". To honor these folks, post pictures of them of biographical information. It's much more fascinating and respectful than gawking over debris. It's simply hideous to venerate debris and ignore the individuals who perished.

[Mark Felton]

Some of the stuff is pretty light and wide with a fairly low terminal velocity (the maximum speed it will free fall)

Here is a tile on the roof of a house.