Mission Control Lock The Doors

If you are referring to the call from the flight director.

Mission control lock the doors.

Inside the mission operations control room a freezing cold space in houston that smelled like coffee and so much tobacco that a cloud of smoke would draft out when the door opened that. 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. 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. Gc lock the doors that is a command that initiates the contingency response to a significant incident such as the loss of a vehicle.

Timeline of events in space shuttle columbia left wing during failed re entry of sts 107 duration. Matthew travis 149 879 views. Lock the doors means there is no longer an emergency. It begins a freeze isolate and protect process.

The command to lock the doors is to secure mission control so that nobody comes in or out. Est on feb 1. Finally mr cain says the phrase that marked the lack of hope. It means the crew of a spaceship is dead.

Lock the doors this meant nobody could. It is a few minutes past 9 a m. 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.