chancycat's Journal: Space Shuttle lost

This morning (1 Feb 2003) I woke up at 5:40PST to go out in the dark of Oregon with my dog to try to see the STS-107 Space Shuttle Columbia re-entry trail. It was suprisingly a clear sky - it is usually raining around here. I was supposed to be able to see the trail at 5:54am. Didn't see anything, I thought perhaps mission control had the shuttle come down on another pass, 90 minutes later. I came back inside to check the status of the landing on the web - only to eventually learn that the shuttle broke up at about 6am over Texas. Debris being found in central Texas now...