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Shuttle Columbia STS-107

An SI Board Since February 2003

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Introduction Compact

At 9am EST on February 1st, the U.S. Space Shuttle Columbia, America's 140th manned space flight, broke apart upon re-entry into earth's atmosphere. . . 39 miles (207,000 ft.)above the earth . . traveling at Mach 6 (12,500 mph).

The first sensor reportedly lost was the hydraulics. Soon after all tracking data was lost.

On Jan. 16, shortly after Columbia lifted off, a piece of insulating foam on its external fuel tank came off and was believed to have struck the left wing of the shuttle. Leroy Cain, the lead flight director in Mission Control, assured reporters Friday that engineers had concluded that any damage to the wing was considered minor and posed no safety hazard.

The 7 member crew can be seen at: space.com

This board is for posting information, your account, where you were, your thoughts and your prayers.

RIP: STS-107

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627		D.Austin	-	8/10/2012
626	Very interesting...	Yogizuna	-	12/15/2003
625	nytimes.com PowerPoint Makes You Dumb By CLIVE THOMPSON Published: December 14	Tom Swift	-	12/14/2003
624	Khalil, Foam can be quite rigid, if the density is high, (and by high I mean 6-8	Bill Jackson	-	9/1/2003
623	It's amazing what drag, even at ~.1 atm can do. The actual acceleration on t	S. maltophilia	-	9/1/2003
622	Khalil, Remember that foam will break off and enter a jet stream of several thou	Bill Jackson	-	9/1/2003
621	Yes, I'm with you about the complexity of this problem... They would probab	Yogizuna	-	7/28/2003
620	That's the $64K question. I'm not sure what to do with it, and I suspect	S. maltophilia	-	7/25/2003
619	In your opinion, how much of an affect if any, would the thin atmosphere have on	Yogizuna	-	7/25/2003
618	Continuing to beat this dead horse <g> nytimes.com <<The event that	S. maltophilia	-	7/23/2003
617	<< whatever they are>> Eventually we'll have to go check it out.	Yogizuna	-	7/15/2003
616	<< whatever they are>> Eventually we'll have to go check it out.	S. maltophilia	-	7/11/2003
615	There are also some very good images of "huge trees" or whatever they	Yogizuna	-	7/11/2003
614	There are some pretty sharp pictures of the "glass tubes" out there ta	Yogizuna	-	7/11/2003
613	Interesting, but maybe not as interesting as Clarke appears to have found them.	S. maltophilia	-	7/11/2003
612	No, I have not read that book yet, but I just book marked it to remind me. Arth	Yogizuna	-	7/9/2003
611	I am indeed convinced that a piece of foam caused the damage. There is nothing e	S. maltophilia	-	7/8/2003
610	>>> Whether we have the will to replace it with something better or ret	Yogizuna	-	7/8/2003
609	A small nuclear device fired at any speed would probably cause some damage too.	S. maltophilia	-	7/8/2003
608	It looks to me like they now have the proverbial "smoking gun"... ny	Yogizuna	-	7/8/2003
607	I didn't find a very good second by second telemetry data chart but here	S. maltophilia	-	7/7/2003
606	I would be so bold to assume NASA was willing to err on the side of faster foam	Yogizuna	-	7/2/2003
605	I can do the basic calcs, except for assigning an aerodynamic drag value. I'	S. maltophilia	-	7/1/2003
604	I wish I could help you more on this subject, but these kinds of calculations ar	Yogizuna	-	7/1/2003
603	<<researchers shot a 1.67-pound chunk of foam from a gas cannon at a full-	S. maltophilia	-	6/29/2003

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