NASA Full Launch - STS 107 - Colombia last launch [2003]

Mission:STS-107 Migrogravity Research Mission/SPACEHAB
Space Shuttle: Columbia
Launch Pad: 39A
Launched: January 16, 2003, 10:39 a.m. EST
Landing:(PLANED) Feb. 1 2003 9 a.m. EST
Orbital Insertion Altitude: 150 nautical miles
Orbit Inclination: 39.00°

Jan. 16, 2003, at 10:39 a.m. EST, Columbia lifted off on time on the first shuttle mission of the year. It carried seven crew members, including the first Israeli astronaut, on a marathon international scientific research flight.

KSC landing was planned for Feb. 1 after a 16-day mission, but Columbia and crew were lost during reentry over East Texas at about 9 a.m. EST, 16 minutes prior to the scheduled touchdown at KSC. A seven-month investigation followed, including a four month search across Texas to recover debris. The search was headquartered at Barksdale Air Force Base in Shreveport, La. Nearly 85,000 pieces of orbiter debris were shipped to KSC and housed in the Columbia Debris Hangar near the Shuttle Landing Facility. The KSC debris reconstruction team identified pieces as to location on the orbiter, and determined damaged areas. About 38 percent of the orbiter Columbia was eventually recovered.

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[OlympicAstronauts]

god has nothing to do with it.

[defenderoFreedom]

RIP Columbia

[lovelplants]

nice flight..:)

[footofthecrossdancer]

RIP Columbia crew.....

[guitarnashelter]

columbia was pretty battle scarred by this time,but it still had the best burn in my opinion out of the other shuttles,this was simply a freak occurance,i blame nasa as they should of made absolutly sure that foam would not drop off,it was in the specs

[TaLoCc]

no boom? what happen?

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