What caused the crash of Space Shuttle Columbia?
By Der Voron Let us analyze the facts: • The breakup occurred at a very great height, over 40 miles. This excludes any possibility for the supposed Earth-based attacker to shoot it down with existing land-to-air missiles, as none of them are able to reach the height of even close to 40 miles. Others may entertain the possibility of an attack, with the use of special missiles or laser guns, launched by a Russian satellite, another space device, or a Russian high-altitude strategic bomber (e.g. TU-95 or TU-160) that somehow could approach or cross the US border. Those who believe that this is the truth may use, as a kind of “supportive information”, the following fact: just about 20 minutes after the crash, RosAviaCosmos, the Russian space agency, declared that it might have been caused by a technical defect. But the problem is that some other specialists made their own (different) claims in the same time period. • Some sources, including RosAviaCosmos, claim that a little fragment of Sh
