Space Shuttle Columbia Remains
The fbi helped locate the remains of all seven crew members.
Space shuttle columbia remains. Remains of some of the seven astronauts who died when the space shuttle columbia disintegrated on saturday have been recovered nasa said on sunday evening. Columbia disintegrated as it returned to earth at the end of its space mission. The columbia accident came 16 years after the 1986 challenger tragedy in which seven crew members were killed.
While nasa continues to develop ways to transport astronauts from earth to the space station and to develop a commercial crew program ccp no other programs are currently planned for manned flights. Wreckage recovered to date includes blasted fragments of a satellite booster that was riding in challenger s payload bay parts of the ship s wings and fuselage and all three of the shuttle. The accident was caused by a hole in the shuttle s left wing from a piece of foam insulation that smashed into it at launch.
The breach in the wing brought it down upon its return to earth. 2 2003 one day after the space shuttle columbia disintegrated in the sky a nasa official said remains from all seven astronauts had been found while another official voiced hope that hidden data on computers would shed light on what caused the disaster. Seven astronauts slipped into unconsciousness within seconds and their bodies were whipped around in seats whose restraints failed as the space shuttle columbia spun out of control and.
In that time promises had been made by those in charge but. Residents of hemphill texas erected a memorial to mark where the remains of one of the space shuttle columbia crew members were found. Privately funded missions are becoming the order of the day.
The space shuttle columbia disaster was a fatal incident in the united states space program that occurred on february 1 2003 when the space shuttle columbia ov 102 disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere killing all seven crew members. In 2011 nasa s space shuttle fleet was officially retired.