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Gerry Schumann, NASA Institutional Safety and Mishap Investigation program executive, and Mike Leinbach, former space shuttle launch director, discuss the important role the U.S. Forestry Service and the wildland firefighters played in the Columbia search efforts.

Gerry Schumann, NASA Institutional Safety and Mishap Investigation program executive, shares the story of when he personally learned, after a difficult task, how much local knowledge could improve the Columbia recovery efforts.

NASA’s Gerry Schumann and Mike Ciannilli, who were both onsite during the recovery efforts, explain the role of helicopter searches during the Columbia recovery efforts, and explain how two additional lives were lost during this time.

Mike Leinbach, former space shuttle launch director, led NASA’s reconstruction efforts after the loss of Columbia. In this video, he shares how the agency worked to piece together the found debris to learn exactly what happened during the accident.

In this video, Mike Ciannilli, manager, Apollo, Challenger, Columbia Lessons Learned Program; Mike Leinbach, former space shuttle launch director; and Darren Cone, executive director, Center for the Advancement of Space Safety and Mission Assurance, discuss the story the Columbia debris had to tell and what was learned from studying these artifacts.

Listen as Danny Olivas, astronaut of STS-117 and STS-128 and founder of the Center for the Advancement of Space Safety and Mission Assurance, shares his experience of how Columbia research made his time in space safer.

Darren Cone, executive director, Center for the Advancement of Space Safety and Mission Assurance, explains how new technology and scientific advancement give researchers further insight into what happened to Columbia.

In this video, Ngozi Ochoa, University of Texas at El Paso and Center for the Advancement of Space Safety and Mission Assurance Research Ph.D. graduate, shares details of her materials research on Columbia.

NASA’s Gerry Schumann and Mike Ciannilli explain how pieces of Columbia are still being found today and how these findings make it home to NASA.

Gerry Schumann, NASA Institutional Safety and Mishap Investigation program executive, explains how the Remembering Columbia Museum in Hemphill, Texas, came to be.