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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.
Space Shuttle and other solid-fuel vehicles: Bruce Halker and Roy Westerfield lost their lives in the PEPCON disaster, an explosion of a factory that produced ammonium perchlorate for solid-fuel rocket boosters of the Space Shuttle and other launchers. 27 July 1989: Kennedy Space Center, US 1 Space Shuttle
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.
The mission ended on February 1, 2003, with the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster which killed all seven crew members and destroyed the space shuttle. It was the 88th post- Challenger disaster mission. The flight launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 16, 2003.
The Saturn-Shuttle was a preliminary concept of launching the Space Shuttle orbiter using a modified version of the first stage of the Saturn V rocket. [1] It was studied and considered in 1971–1972.
Space Shuttle, Orion, Apollo CSM: Active Upper ... Saturn V: 1st RP-1 / ... 5.97: Space Shuttle Solid Rocket Booster [k]
The bunker was designed to withstand the explosion of a fully fueled Saturn V rocket on the pad above, [3] and could support up to 20 people for 24 hours. [1] Blast door to the rubber room, looking from the antechamber into the main room. Access to the bunker was via a 200-foot (61 m) slide chute that began at an opening on the surface of the ...
S-IC-T was planned as a test rocket only and not to be used in the later Apollo program. The Saturn V rocket was used in the Apollo program to depart Earth's gravity. S-IC-T, like all following Saturn V's S-IC rockets used five Rocketdyne F-1 engines. The Rocketdyne F-1 engine was first tested in March 1959 and delivered to NASA in October 1963.