![]() ![]() ![]() Anderson, Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon, and Mission Specialists David McDowell Brown, Kalpana “KC” Chawla, and Laurel Blair Salton Clark, had conducted microgravity research and completed experiments on commercial payloads on the debuting SPACEHAB Research Double Module. Captain Rick Douglas Husband, Pilot William “Willie” Cameron McCool, Payload Commander Michael P. The seven-member crew of STS-107 was preparing to come home after a successful 15-day mission. Nothing unusual was anticipated that day at NASA. They only numbered a couple of hundred, compared to the thousands who had gathered to watch STS-1 land. Spectators had gathered to watch Space Shuttle Columbia make what was considered another routine landing. ![]() It was an ordinary morning at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. A Successful 15-Day Missionįebruary 01, 2003. The lessons learned remain as relevant today as they were in 2003, if only we can keep them alive and continue to learn from this modern tragedy. By reading this introduction, and the articles accessible from the sidebar, you will learn all the facts that led to this tragedy, its technical and organizational causes, its consequences on NASA and future human spaceflight programs, the lessons learned, and the precious testimony of people directly involved in the event. This section of Space Safety Magazine is dedicated to the Columbia disaster. Its impact on US human spaceflight program, and the resulting decision to discontinue the Space Shuttle Program, was so dramatic that to this date NASA has not recovered an autonomous human access to space. The Columbia Disaster is one of the most tragic events in spaceflight history. ![]()
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