i remember our capcom, charlie hobaugh, trying to re-establish communications.a, houston, comm check. ♪ -and i had not lost hope that we would re-establish communications to the crew. ♪ -no c band yet. -copy. ♪ -c band's a radar that sits on the ground. and literally, it sends out a signal, and it bounces it off of the spacecraft to tell us where it is. but we were getting nothing. ♪ you know, the room was just silent. ♪ -alright. miles, back over to you. -alright. we've got a little problem on the space shuttle columbia. it has been out of communication now for the past 12 minutes. let's take a look at a live picture of mission control in houston. i was live on morning tv at that point, so dialled into nasa on a cellphone i had. there was a secret phone number you could dial into and hear the mission audio. the people in the control room were going, "are you hearing this?" i'm, like, nodding. -no further communications with the spacecraft about 8:00 a.m. central time. -hang on. let's listen in. -and no further tracking data from the spacecraft was gained from c