At 9 12 a m he instructed ground control officer bill foster to lock the doors a de facto admission that all hope was gone and ordered flight controllers not to leave the building but to begin preserving their data and writing up their logbook notes for use in the subsequent investigation.
Mission control lock the doors.
It begins a freeze isolate and protect process.
One minute ago flight comes the response from richard jones flight dynamics officer.
Leroy cain nasa s flight director in mission control during the columbia disaster told flight controllers to lock the doors just after it became apparent that the space shuttle had suffered a.
Finally mr cain says the phrase that marked the lack of hope.
Gc lock the doors that is a command that initiates the contingency response to a significant incident such as the loss of a vehicle.
All controllers are to begin saving their telemetry for the investigators.
Timeline of events in space shuttle columbia left wing during failed re entry of sts 107 duration.
It means the crew of a spaceship is dead.
Est on feb 1.
It is a few minutes past 9 a m.
Lock the doors this meant nobody could.
Lock the doors means there is no longer an emergency.
The command to lock the doors is to secure mission control so that nobody comes in or out.
Lock the doors cain ordered initiating contingency procedures in mission control for the first time since the challenger disaster 17 years before.
After checking with jones that no further tracking had been acquired cain referred his team to their contingency plans the plans that they and the sts 107 crew had worked in training but.