On Feb. 1, 2003, NASA's space shuttle Columbia broke up during re-entry, killing all astronauts onboard. Here we take a look at photos from Columbia's final mission, STS-107.
To meet the new flight schedule, in 2002 NASA revised its shuttle manifest, calling for a docking adaptor to be installed inColumbiaafter the STS-107 mission so that it could make an October 2003 flight to the International space Station.Columbiawas not optimal for Station flights the Orbiter ...
哥伦比亚号(Columbia)是美国国家航空航天局(NASA)所属的航天飞机之一,同时是美国的航天飞机机队中第一架正式服役的。1981年4月12日首次执行代号STS-1的任务,正式开启了NASA的太空运输系统计划(Space Transportation System program,STS)序章。 2003年2月1日,在执行代号STS-107的第28次任务重返大气层的阶段中与控制中...
Space Shuttle Columbia Launch The Columbia’s 28th space mission, designated STS-107, was originally scheduled to launch on January 11, 2001, but was delayed numerous times for a variety of reasons over nearly two years. Columbia finally launched on January 16, 2003, with a crew of seven....
Accident Case Study of Organizational Silence Communication Breakdown: Shuttle Columbia, Mission STS-107 This report has been developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) ESMD Risk and Knowledge Management team. This document provides a point-in-time, cumulative, summary of key...
This mission had unique opportunities to observe the Southern Hemisphere. We have highlighted some of the interesting photos in this report but many more valuable images have been added to our growing database for future analysis. Future Space Shuttle missions will provide opportunities to document dy...
Pitts, D. E., et al. (1995), Earth observations during space shuttle mission STS-55: Columbia's mission to planet Earth (April 26 - May 6, 1993), Geocarto Int., 10(1), 67-79, doi:10.1080/10106049509354481.Pitts, D. E. , et al. ( 1995 ), Earth observations during space ...
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Space shuttle Columbia launches on mission STS-107, January 16, 2003. (Image credit: NASA) (Editor's note: This story was originally published on July 7, 2003.) CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Nearly seven months after Columbia broke apart over Texas skies the formal investigation is complete and...
Space Shuttle Columbia, the first reusable spacecraft, was the oldest in theshuttle fleet.It completed 27 missions; STS-107 was its 28th mission. The Columbia Accident Investigation Boarddetermined that the cause of the accident was a piece of insulating foam that broke off and struck a hole ...