Re:I remember (Score 3, Informative)

I remember getting up at oh-dark-thirty and driving out of town a ways to get past the excessive light pollution here in Las Vegas, to see my first shuttle reentry.. Recently I read where it looks like the shuttle was starting to break up as it passed over Nevada.. I remember watching it and thinking to myself.. 'gee! that sure looks like sparks coming off of it..' and having never seen a reentry before, I assumed all was well.. Which lasted until I got home, and heard the news... God bless the Columbia astronauts...