Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story | Mike Leinbach & Jonathan Ward | NEAF Talks

Filmed April 2018

On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry in the skies over East Texas. Over the next three months, an unlikely coalition of NASA technicians, wildland firefighters, and local volunteers searched every square foot of an area larger than the state of Delaware to recover the remains of Columbia’s crew and 80,000 pounds of debris from the vehicle. Leinbach and historian Jonathan Ward will discuss this fascinating chapter in America’s space history and how Columbia continues her research mission to the present day.

Who are Mike Leinbach & Jonathan Ward?
MICHAEL D. LEINBACH is the Shuttle Launch Director at NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla. Leinbach joined NASA in 1984 as a structural engineer in the Design Engineering Directorate.
Leinbach was tapped to serve as Assistant Launch Director in May 2000 and was named Launch Director in August 2000. He also serves as the senior operations expert for NASA for all Shuttle flight elements and ground support equipment processing issues.
JONATHAN H. WARD is the author of “Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story” and a lifelong amateur astronomer. He serves as Solar System Ambassador for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He is also an author of three recent books on the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs.

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