Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 launch

Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 launch from NASA site.

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• Columbia
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[greenseaships]

No shuttle deserved more to be in a museum than Columbia. :(

[Robert9640]

@CubesForAKid It occurs 82 seconds after liftoff, even though you can't see it as it happens.

[CubesForAKid]

When is the foam strike? I don't see it in the video. RIP STS-107

[PremierChannel1999]

Discovery is named aftr my town's ship!

Columbia is my 2nd favrouite shuttle!

[GoAtlantis135]

Columbia was my favorite space shuttle. The 1st, the one who paved the way for Challenger (may she and her crew rest in peace), Discovery, Atlantis, and last but not least, the baby of the space shuttles, Endeavour. I hope Columbia and her astronauts are in a better place now with Challenger and her crew as well. I remember when i got up excited early in the morning to watch Columbia's reentry live, just to watch the death of these 7 astronauts and Columbia. I cried my eyes out for days,

[BeatDrumSticks]

well if we had a time machine we could go back to January 16 and tear off the part that came off of the ET(External tank)and when comes into re-entry it will land safely land and retire in 2012

[crackaddict444]

@syeager9 The CAIB determined that if NASA had not shrugged off the foam damage, they could've had the astronauts do an emergency EVA to asses the damage and potentially repair it. They also determined that Atlantis' processing could've been sped up and that Columbia could remain in orbit for up to a month.

[syeager9]

@crackaddict444 It's pointless argument. There is a BIG IF here. People at NASA didn't even think that something like this could happen. They even denied the fact that foam strike could cause the catastrophic failure till the last moment untill the chicken shooter test proved them wrong. But the reality is that NASA didn't have any contengency plans. Columbia didn't have any means of inspection the damage, not talking about the rapairs. Atlantis was weeks away from being ready for launch.

[crackaddict444]

@syeager9 No, CAIB determined that had NASA been proactive about it, something could've been done. In the CAIB report, they talk about a repair techniqued that would've been possible, along with a rescue mission using Atlantis, which was already mated to an ET and ready to launch in March of that year. They determined that NASA could've expedited the processing of Atlantis to be used as a rescue shuttle.

[syeager9]

@crackaddict444 I think you are talking about CAIB reccomendations for future missions. In case of Columbia no repair or rescue was possible. Besides the fact that NASA didn't even think that something went wrong.