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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.
It discusses the history of the Space Shuttle program, and documents the post-disaster recovery and investigation efforts. [90] Michael Leinbach, a retired Launch Director at KSC who was working on the day of the disaster, released Bringing Columbia Home: The Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew in 2018. It documents his personal ...
The spacewalk was based out of the Pirs docking compartment; the spacewalkers wore Russian Orlan space suits. [6] This was the 52nd spacewalk devoted to Space Station assembly, [6] operations and maintenance, bringing the cumulative total to 322 hours and 32 minutes. It was the 27th based out of the Station, bringing the total to 155 hours and ...
STS-107 was the 113th flight of the Space Shuttle program, and the 28th and final flight of Space Shuttle Columbia. The mission ended on February 1, 2003, with the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster which killed all seven crew members and destroyed the space shuttle.
The Expedition Seven crew—along with European Space Agency Astronaut Pedro Duque—landed back on Earth on 27 October 2003 at Kazakhstan at 02:41:20 UTC, after undocking from the International Space Station in their Soyuz spacecraft at 23:17 UTC. [2] Due to the reduced crew size, the scientific work had to be scaled down as well.
Notable test flights of spaceflight systems may be listed even if they were not planned to reach space. Some lists are further divided into orbital launches (sending a payload into orbit, whether successful or not) and suborbital flights (e.g. ballistic missiles, sounding rockets, experimental spacecraft).
1994 - Space Shuttle Discovery launches on mission STS-60 to conduct scientific research, and deploy a number of experimental satellites. 1994 - The H-II rocket makes its maiden flight, launching the OREX satellite. 1995 - Space Shuttle Discovery launches on mission STS-63 to rendezvous with Mir and deploy a number of radar calibration satellites.
Pages in category "2003 in spaceflight" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...