Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster 2003

On february 1 2003 during re entry the space shuttle columbia disintegrated over northern texas with all seven crewmembers aboard.

Space shuttle columbia disaster 2003. More than 82 000 pieces of debris from the feb. Here s how the news broke on cnn. Its impact on us human spaceflight program and the resulting decision to discontinue the space shuttle program was so dramatic that to this date nasa has not recovered an autonomous human access to space. Space shuttle columbia broke up during re entry killing 7 astronauts.

Columbia disaster breakup of the u s. The space shuttle broke apart as it reentered the earth s atmosphere killing all seven crew members. Pieces of columbia space shuttle debris are seen stored in a hangar at nasa s kennedy space center in florida during accident investigation in 2003. On february 1st 2003 the space shuttle columbia disintegrated during its re entry into the atmosphere.

The seven astronauts were killed. This picture survived on a roll of unprocessed film recovered. Space shuttle columbia disaster. 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.

The spacecraft was exposed to re entry temperatures of 3 000 degrees while traveling. On saturday columbia s crew had no chance of surviving after the shuttle broke up at 207 135 feet above earth.