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On Saturday, February 1, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it re-entered the atmosphere over Texas and Louisiana, killing all seven astronauts on board. It was the second Space Shuttle mission to end in disaster, after the loss of Challenger and crew in 1986.
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The 2003 Alcântara VLS accident was an accident during the Brazilian Space Agency's third attempt to launch the VLS-1 rocket, which was intended to launch two satellites into orbit. The rocket ignited on its launch pad at the Alcântara Launch Center, killing 21 people. It is the fourth deadliest space exploration related disaster in history.
The seventh crew of the International Space Station lifted off in Soyuz TMA-2 from the Russian Space Agency's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 25 April 2003, at 05:56:20 UTC. [1] The Soyuz docked on 28 April 2003 and took over command of the ISS.
It reentered Earth's atmosphere at 06:04 (UTC+08:00) on 16 October 2003 (22:04 UTC 15 Oct 2003), its parachute opened normally and the astronaut said he was feeling fine. The landing happened at 06:28 (UTC+08:00), just 4.8 km (3.0 mi) from the planned landing site in Inner Mongolia , according to the government.
The 400-foot behemoth, composed of both a 165-foot Starship spacecraft itself and the 232-foot "Super Heavy" rocket, is due in the years ahead to play a pivotal role in NASA's lunar ambitions and ...
24 April 2003 04:23:17 Proton-K/Block-DM-2 8K82K/11S861 410-02 Site 81/24: Successful Kosmos 2397 Geosynchronous Missile warning 6 June 2003 22:15:15 Proton-K/Briz-M 8K82K/11S43 410-01 Site 200/39: Successful AMC-9: Geosynchronous transfer Communications Commercial launch conducted by International Launch Services 24 November 2003 06:22:00
In the early morning hours of Dec. 31, 2024, SpaceX ended its year as it began it, with one final launch of Starlink satellites into orbit. The launch marked SpaceX's 134th mission of the year ...