Monday, February 1, 2010

Remembering Columbia STS-107

I am looking at this, Remembering Columbia STS-107, at NASA's website http://history.nasa.gov/columbia/index.html
According to this account of the STS-107 mission, Space Shuttle Columbia launched on 16 January 2003.
Space Shuttle Columbia and crew reentered the atmosphere on 1 February 2003.
The shuttle suffered a serious failure as the result of a breach caused when form, falling from the external tank during launch, struck reinforced carbon control panels on the bottom of the left wing.

In Memory of
Rick D. Husband, Commander
William C. McCool, Pilot
Michael P. Anderson, Payload Commander
David Brown, Mission Specialist
Kalpana Chawla, Mission Specialist
Laurel Blair Salton Clark, Mission Specialist
Ilan Ramon, Payload Specialist

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