STS-107
Sign in to saveSTS-107 was the 113th flight of the Space Shuttle program, and the 28th and final flight of Space Shuttle Columbia. The mission ended on February 1, 2003, with the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, in which all seven crew members were killed in the re-entry on the Earth's atmosphere; the shuttle was destroyed along with most of its scientific payloads.
Key facts
- Spaceflight.name
- STS-107
- Spaceflight.names_list
- Space Transportation System-107
- Spaceflight.image
- Spacehab S107e05359.jpg
- Spaceflight.image_caption
- Spacehab's Research Double Module in Columbias payload bay during STS-107
- Spaceflight.insignia
- STS-107 Flight Insignia.svg
- Spaceflight.insignia_caption
- STS-107 mission patch
- Spaceflight.mission_type
- Microgravity research
- Spaceflight.operator
- NASA
- Spaceflight.mission_duration
- 15 days, 22 hours, 20 minutes, 32 seconds
- Spaceflight.orbits_completed
- 255
- Spaceflight.landing_mass
- (expected)
- Spaceflight.crew_size
- 7
- Spaceflight.crew_photo
- Crew of STS-107, official photo.jpg
- Spaceflight.crew_photo_caption
- Rear (L-R): David Brown, Laurel Clark, Michael Anderson, Ilan Ramon; Front (L-R): Rick Husband, Kalpana Chawla, William McCool
- Spaceflight.launch_site
- Kennedy, LC-39A
- Spaceflight.launch_date
- UTC
- Spaceflight.decay_date
- UTC
- Spaceflight.landing_site
- Kennedy, SLF Runway 33 (planned)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human spaceflight
- Part of
- Space Shuttle program
- Has part
- Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
- Operator
- NASA
- Followed by
- STS-114
- Follows
- STS-113
- Duration
- 1376432
- Mass
- 14553
- Orbital period
- 90.1
- Image
- Close-up STS-107 Launch - GPN-2003-00080.jpg
- Significant event
- rocket launch
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- orbital inclination
- 39
- UTC date of spacecraft launch
- 2003-01-16
- type of orbit
- low Earth orbit
- Commons gallery
- STS-107
- Commons category
- STS-107
- crew members
- Ilan Ramon
- vessel
- Columbia
- orbits completed
- 255
- periapsis
- 270
- apoapsis
- 285
- start point
- Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A
- time of object orbit decay
- 2003-02-01
- cause of destruction
- Space Shuttle Columbia disaster
- topic has template
- Template:STS-107
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Encyclopedic overview
16 sectionsContents
- Crew
- Crew seat assignments
- Mission highlights
- Major experiments
- Results and data gained
- Data recovery
- Re-entry
- Aftermath
- Insignia
- Wake-up calls
- Gallery
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Literature
- External links
STS-107 was the 113th flight of the Space Shuttle program, and the 28th and final flight of Space Shuttle Columbia. The mission ended on February 1, 2003, with the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, in which all seven crew members were killed in the re-entry on the Earth's atmosphere; the shuttle was destroyed along with most of its scientific payloads.
The flight launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 16, 2003. It spent 15 days, 22 hours, 20 minutes, 32 seconds in orbit. The crew conducted a multitude of international scientific experiments. The disaster occurred during reentry while the orbiter was over Texas.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “STS-107” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.