Remembering The Ill Fated Space Shuttle Columbia Mission Of 2003

Remembering The Ill Fated Space Shuttle Columbia Mission Of 2003 20 years ago: remembering columbia and her crew. the year 2003 was shaping up to be an ambitious one for nasa, with six space shuttle missions planned, five to continue construction of the ever growing and permanently occupied international space station. the first flight of the year, sts 107 aboard nasa’s oldest orbiter columbia, the first. The columbia sts 107 mission lifted off on january 16, 2003, for a 17 day science mission featuring numerous microgravity experiments. upon reentering the atmosphere on february 1, 2003, the columbia orbiter suffered a catastrophic failure due to a breach that occurred during launch when falling foam from the external tank struck the reinforced carbon carbon panels on the underside of the left.

Remembering The Ill Fated Space Shuttle Columbia Mission Of 2003 Photo credit: nasa. in the second half of january 2003, space shuttle columbia flew her 28th and final mission into orbit. for 16 days, her seven strong crew supported more than 80 scientific experiments in the spacehab research double module and aboard a pallet at the rear of the payload bay. by now, the shuttle was perceived to be a dangerous. A new documentary, “astronaut diaries: remembering the columbia shuttle crew,” provides an intriguing look at the dedication and humor that spurred the seven astronauts aboard nasa’s ill. Following its return to earth after a 16 day space mission, the space shuttle columbia broke apart on its journey back into the earth’s atmosphere on feb. 1, 2003. all seven crew members were…. Space shuttle columbia 's last mission, known as sts 107, ended in disaster when the shuttle broke up as it returned to earth on feb. 1, 2003, killing all seven astronauts on board. tragedy struck.