Above is a short video clip from the film "Miles Above". A film that takes a unique look at the Columbia Disaster. When I first watched Miles Above in 2004 I was struck by a curious editing of the official NASA audio during one section of the Mission Control coverage. Someone had taken Rick Husband's :58:48 call, moved it 30 seconds later and spliced inside the MMACS Call to Columbia.

I wrote filmmaker Mike Welt and asked him why he had edited the audio this way and he informed me that this was exactly how this MCC footage had been given to him by NASA. That whoever had done the editing for NASA was responsible for this rearranging of sound bites.

This-

08:58:48 a.m. - HUSBAND: "And, uh, Hou..."

08:59:18 a.m. - MCC-MMACS: "We just lost the tire pressure on the left outboard and left inboard, both tires.

"08:59:24 a.m. - MCC-CAPCOM: "And Columbia, Houston, we see your tire pressure...MCC-FLIGHT: "Copy..."

MCC-CAPCOM: "...messages and we did not copy your last." ...MCC-FLIGHT: "Is it instrumentation, MMACS?

08:59:30 a.m. - MCC-MMACS: "Ah...FLIGHT, MMACS, ...

 

Was changed to-

08:59:18 a.m. - MCC-MMACS: "...the tire... HUSBAND: "And uh, Hou..." pressure on the left outboard and left inboard, both tires."

"08:59:24 a.m. - MCC-CAPCOM: "And Columbia, Houston, we see your tire pressure...MCC-FLIGHT: "Copy..."

MCC-CAPCOM: "...messages and we did not copy your last." ...MCC-FLIGHT: "Is it instrumentation, MMACS?

08:59:30 a.m. - MCC-MMACS: "FLIGHT, MMACS, ...

Why did they edit the audio in this fashion?...curious.

-chris