STS-93 Columbia Engine Failure

This is the abort of the launch of Space Shuttle Columbia on mission STS-93 in July 20, 1999. They aborted the launch because they had a little hydrogen in the aft. This date is also the anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

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Science & Technology

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• STS-93
• SpaceShuttleColumbia

[yoyoyoyoshua]

they had hydrogen in the ass

[dtiydr]

Major boring event for the astronauts i guess.

[ColeFried81]

@dtiydr boring isn't the word I would use. Unsettling, terrified, nervous is more like it.

[inuyasha3436]

FAIL

[usaeagle1776]

@LessThanSte I know what you mean. I was at a launch attempt in Aug of 1993, and they had something similiar. never go to go back to see another one. sucked big time.

[LessThanSte]

Im so gutted, this is the closest i ever, and will ever get to seeing a shuttle launch. We were on the other side of the canal, right by McDonalds, pretty much as close as you can get without being on NASA property and had been there all day counting down to the launch. It was the longest drive back to Clearwater ever :(

[trechan]

Thats good that they spotted the initial problem and halted. It's important to confirm and recognize any future problems, you don't want another Challenger incident. I will agree that it is anti climatic, and that it was quite boring. However, they did save themselves from any future incidents.

[kinsley2108]

What an anti-climax.

[kingofinferno100]

WHY spend millions or trillions of funds on this(for 30 years) when we could have sent a man 2 mars by now

[1fifaworldcuplover2]

@yoyoyoyoshua AFT

[DAngelo136]

@19thSFGA Yeah like the highly profitable aviation industry