Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster Date
Serving for over 22 years it completed 27 missions before disintegrating during re entry near the end of its 28th mission sts 107 on february 1 2003 resulting in the deaths of all seven crew members.
Space shuttle columbia disaster date. The disaster occurred over texas and only minutes before. Sts 107 was the 113th flight of the space shuttle program and the 28th and final flight of space shuttle columbia the mission launched from kennedy space center in florida on 16 january 2003 and during its 15 days 22 hours 20 minutes 32 seconds in orbit conducted a multitude of international scientific experiments. The space shuttle columbia broke apart on february 1 2003 while re entering the earth s atmosphere killing all seven crew members.
1 2003 killing its seven member crew. The space shuttle columbia on mission sts 107 broke up on feb. The shuttle broke up catastrophically on february 1 2003 killing all aboard.
The destruction of columbia followed by almost exactly 17 years the loss of challenger in a launch accident on january 28 1986. Spectators had gathered to watch space shuttle columbia make what was considered another routine landing. The disaster was the second fatal accident in the space shuttle program after the 1986 breakup of challenger soon after liftoff.
It launched for the first time on mission sts 1 on april 12 1981 the first flight of the space shuttle program. They only numbered a couple of hundred compared to the thousands who had gathered to watch sts 1 land. Ironically the cause of the columbia catastrophe soon was determined to be launch related as well.
The space shuttle columbia was the first space rated orbiter in nasa s space shuttle fleet.