Lock the doors cain ordered initiating contingency procedures in mission control for the first time since the challenger disaster 17 years before.
Mission control lock the doors.
After checking with jones that no further tracking had been acquired cain referred his team to their contingency plans the plans that they and the sts 107 crew had worked in training but.
The command to lock the doors is to secure mission control so that nobody comes in or out.
One minute ago flight comes the response from richard jones flight dynamics officer.
Lock the doors this meant nobody could.
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It is a few minutes past 9 a m.
Lock the doors means there is no longer an emergency.
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At 9 12 a m he instructed ground control officer bill foster to lock the doors a de facto admission that all hope was gone and ordered flight controllers not to leave the building but to begin preserving their data and writing up their logbook notes for use in the subsequent investigation.
Inside the mission operations control room a freezing cold space in houston that smelled like coffee and so much tobacco that a cloud of smoke would draft out when the door opened that.
Gc lock the doors that is a command that initiates the contingency response to a significant incident such as the loss of a vehicle.
It begins a freeze isolate and protect process.
Finally mr cain says the phrase that marked the lack of hope.
It means the crew of a spaceship is dead.
All controllers are to begin saving their telemetry for the investigators.