Dr. Judy Wood solved the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster 5 months before NASA did!

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In this video, I show how Dr. Judy Wood worked out what caused the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster within days, while NASA only confirmed it about 5 months later. Watching the live coverage on February 1, 2003, she identified the damaged thermal tiles on the left wing, and 5 days later she gave her EM 304 (Mechanics of Materials) class a test problem about it. The flight's own thermocouple data later showed a temperature spike in the left wing at around 205 °F, the same value she had calculated in her problem.