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    On Saturday, February 1, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere over Texas and Louisiana, killing all seven astronauts...
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    Space Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) was a Space Shuttle orbiter manufactured by Rockwell International and operated by NASA. Named after the first American...
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    On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard. The spacecraft disintegrated...
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    Kalpana Chawla (category Space Shuttle Columbia disaster)
    STS-107, the final flight of Columbia. She was one of the seven crew members who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster when the spacecraft disintegrated...
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    that traveled the world, Challenger was the second Space Shuttle orbiter to fly into space after Columbia, and launched on its maiden flight in April 1983...
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    Space Shuttle Discovery (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-103) is a retired American Space Shuttle orbiter. The spaceplane was one of the orbiters from...
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    STS-107 (category Space Shuttle Columbia disaster)
    Space Shuttle Columbia disaster which killed all seven crew members and destroyed the space shuttle. It was the 88th post-Challenger disaster mission. The...
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    Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) was an internal commission convened by NASA to investigate the destruction of the Space Shuttle Columbia...
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    Laurel Clark (category Space Shuttle Columbia disaster)
    Navy captain, and Space Shuttle mission specialist. She died along with her six fellow crew members in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Clark was posthumously...
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    Linda Ham (category Space Shuttle Columbia disaster)
    NASA Space Shuttle Program Office and acting manager for launch integration. In this position, she chaired the mission management team for all shuttle flights...
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    Rick Husband (category Space Shuttle Columbia disaster)
    members, including Husband (see Space Shuttle Columbia disaster). Two NASA Group Achievement Awards. Husband Hall, in the Columbia Village apartments, at the...
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    Michael P. Anderson (category Space Shuttle Columbia disaster)
    Anderson and his six fellow crew members were killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster when the craft disintegrated during its re-entry into the Earth's...
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    Ilan Ramon (category Space Shuttle Columbia disaster)
    first Israeli astronaut. He served as a Space Shuttle payload specialist on STS-107, the fatal mission of Columbia, in which he and the six other crew members...
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    Space Shuttle abort modes were procedures by which the nominal launch of the NASA Space Shuttle could be terminated. A pad abort occurred after ignition...
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    space suits. The first mission flown by Atlantis after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster was STS-115, conducted during September 2006. The mission carried...
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    NASA report (PDF format) Interactive Space Shuttle Disaster Memorial Raw Video Reconstruction of Space Shuttle Columbia Re-entry and More Significant Incidents...
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    wing of Space Shuttle Endeavour Space Shuttle program Space Shuttle Columbia disaster Columbia Accident Investigation Board "When the Space Shuttle finally...
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    Apollo 1 fire, seven died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, and seven in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Four of the twelve moonwalkers received...
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    life of the Space Shuttle fleet was extended several times until 2011 when it was finally retired. After the Columbia loss in 2003, the Columbia Accident...
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    January 2011; accessed 02 June 2018 "New Museum Spotlights Columbia Shuttle Disaster". space.com. Retrieved February 1, 2011. Climate Summary for Hemphill...
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    David M. Brown (category Space Shuttle Columbia disaster)
    and NASA astronaut. He died on his first spaceflight, when the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) disintegrated during orbital reentry into the Earth's...
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    Space Shuttle Enterprise (Orbiter Vehicle Designation: OV-101) was the first orbiter of the Space Shuttle system. Rolled out on September 17, 1976, it...
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    in California. Named in honor of the crew who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, it increased NASA's supercomputing capacity ten-fold for the...
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  • Criticism of the Space Shuttle program stemmed from claims that NASA's Space Shuttle program failed to achieve its promised cost and utility goals, as...
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    orbiters to deploy, manoeuvre, and capture payloads. After the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the Canadarm was always paired with the Orbiter Boom Sensor...
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    Greater New Orleans, Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina, the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, and the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse. An exceptional example...
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    in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. These three received the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. Duane G. Carey (1 flight) STS-109 Columbia (Hubble...
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    Rona Ramon (category Space advocates)
    Colonel Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut, who died in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003. She was the mother of Captain Assaf Ramon, a fighter...
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  • California Columbia School District (Mississippi) Columbia Public Schools, Columbia, Missouri Space Shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia disaster Command...
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  • Thumbnail for Space Shuttle orbiter
    The Space Shuttle orbiter is the spaceplane component of the Space Shuttle, a partially reusable orbital spacecraft system that was part of the discontinued...
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