STS-107
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English: STS-107 was a space shuttle mission by NASA using the Space Shuttle Columbia, launched January 16, 2003. The seven-member crew was killed on February 1, 2003, when the shuttle disintegrated during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere.
Español: STS-107 fue una misión de la NASA en el Transbordador espacial Columbia, lanzado el 16 de enero de 2003. Los siete miembros de la tripulación fallecieron el 1 de febrero de 2003, cuando el transbordador se desintegró durante la reentrada en la atmósfera terrestre.
Slovenčina: STS-107 bola poslednou misiou raketoplánu Columbia. Cieľom letu boli predovšetkým experimenty v mikrogravitácii. 1. februára 2003, počas pokusu o pristátie, keď kvôli poškodeniu tepelnej ochrany na krídle do raketoplánu vnikla žeravá plazma a spôsobila jeho deštrukciu, zahynuli všetci siedmi členovia posádky. Príčinou poškodenia tepelného štítu bol kus izolačnej peny, ktorý odpadol z externej palivovej nádrže počas štartu raketoplánu.
- Human spaceflight gallery archive copy at the Wayback Machine
- Kennedy Media Gallery archive copy at the Wayback Machine
- Columbia Accident Investigation Board gallery archive copy at the Wayback Machine
Crew
- Crew photo
- Mission poster
- Richard Husband, Commander
- Willie McCool, Pilot
- Mike Anderson, Mission Specialist
- David Brown, Mission Specialist
- Kalpana Chawla, Mission Specialist
- Laurel Clark, Mission Specialist
- Ilan Ramon, Payload Specialist
- Boarding the shuttle
Preflight
- Crew in front of Spacehab module
- Hitchhiker bridge with FREESTAR
- Payload processing
- Columbia leaves the VAB
- Columbia rolls out to the Pad
- Columbia rolls out to the Pad
- Students work on their experiment
- scheme of general configuration
- 3-view of configuration
Launch
- Launch
- Launch
- Launch
- Launch movie
- Columbia is visible at the top end of a column of smoke
- Composite images of Columbia's ascent. Left image taken before and the right is taken after the debris strike
In orbit
- IR AMOS image of Columbia
- Visible image of AMOS
- Crew picture
- View from tunnel into Spacehab
- Pilot William C. McCool talks with ground controllers
- Payload commander Michael P. Anderson on the aft flight deck
- Kalpana at work in SPACEHAB
- Three crewmembers in their bunk beds
- Ilan Ramon with the Israeli Chemial Garden Experiment
The disaster
- Single thermal protection system tile that was recently recovered near Powell, Texas
- View of the underside of Columbia during its entry
- Columbia debris detected by the National Weather Service radar in Shreveport, LA
- A thermal protection system tile from Columbia
- Debris from Columbia in a hangar in Louisiana
- At an hangar at KSC the Columbia debris collected
- Columbia Memorial on Mars
