However, disaster struck approximately 82 seconds after the shuttle left the ground. 16, Columbia’s crew boarded the shuttle at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center and began their preparations for launch. 16, 2003: Disaster Strikes During Columbia’s Launch This was at a time when almost all of the agency’s efforts were directed towards the construction of the International Space Station. Compared to previous NASA missions, STS-107 was unique in that it was solely focused on scientific research. However, the launch was delayed 18 different times due to various issues. Mission STS-107 was originally set to launch on Jan. This was Columbia’s 28th mission and NASA’s 113th space shuttle launch overall. The crew were taking part in mission STS-107. 16, 2003, and it was to be the last time any of them set foot on the planet. He spent much of Columbias 16-day flight aiming cameras in an Israel Space Agency study of how desert dust and other contaminants in Earths atmosphere affect rainfall and temperature.The seven-member crew of Space Shuttle Columbia left Earth on Jan. Ramon was selected in 1997 to be a payload specialist. Israeli astronauts Ilan Ramon, left, and Itzhak Mayo stand on the flight deck of a space shuttle mock-up at NASA's Johnson Space Center July 16, 1998, in Houston. Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle Show More Show Less 8 of8 (2/1/03) A DPS trooper stands guard next to a large piece of the space shuttle Columbia which came to rest in downtown Nacogdoches, near where a person left a wreath during Saturday afternoon after the space shuttle exploded and sprayed debris across East Texas. Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle Show More Show Less 7 of8 ): Twin sisters LaMetriss, center, and LaDetriss HUNT, BOTH 3, try to tune out their big sister Roshetta SANDER'S attempts to corral them as they follow their curiosities Sunday at a makeshift memorial at the downtown Nacogdoches location of the space shuttle Columbia wreckage. Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle Show More Show Less 6 of8 (2/4/03) Andy Hawthorne stands next to a fuel cell from the fallen spce shuttle Columbia, on Tuesday morning, which exploded over East Texas, Saturday and landed on his property near Nacogdoches. BRETT COOMER/GETTY IMAGES Show More Show Less 5 of8 The seven astronauts aboard Columbia lost their lives Saturday when the shuttle broke up as it decended into the Earth's atmosphere. NASA contractor Ingrid Walker kneels to pray in front of a memorial for the seven astronauts who lost their lives in the space shuttle Columbia accident in front of NASA's Johnson Space Center Monday, Feb. BRETT COOMER/GETTY IMAGES Show More Show Less 4 of8 4, 2003, in Houston, for the seven astronauts lost in the space shuttle Columbia. NASA test engineer Alex Dula bows his head while watching the memorial service Tuesday, Feb. Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle Show More Show Less 3 of8 (2/1/03) A family checks out a thrustor from the space shuttle Columbia which came to rest near downtown Nacogdoches during Saturday afternoon after the space shuttle exploded and sprayed debris across East Texas. Karen Warren/Houston Chronicle Show More Show Less 2 of8 Douglass is 15 miles west of Nacogdoches on Highway 21. Among the interesting finds, on Schwiem's property, were two mice. (2/3/03) Fred Schwiem, a landowner in Douglass, Texas, a heat panel from the space shuttle Columbia, which landed on his property, in Douglass, Texas. Listen below to Coomer recount his memories of the days following the shuttle's breakup over Texas. Coomer had photographed Columbia crew member Ilan Ramon just a few years before during a training session with another Israeli astronaut. Brett Coomer/Getty ImagesĬoomer found a growing memorial to the lives lost as everyday Houstonians and people with closer ties to the space program flocked to the home of mission control. Columbia broke up on re-entry over the skies of Texas after a 16-day science mission and the seven astronauts on board are feared dead. HOUSTON, TX - FEBRUARY 1: Kathryn O'Neill and her son Zachary, of Laguna Hills, California, kneel by the entrance sign of NASA's Johnson Space Center where a makeshift memorial for the crew of the space shuttle Columbia has been set up, Februin Houston, Texas. NASA's Houston home was a familiar location to Coomer, who had been covering Space Shuttle missions for years and had a badge that allowed him onto the property. Houston Chronicle photographer Karen Warren recalls covering the Columbia shuttle disaster Video: Karen Warren, Staff photographerĬoomer, now a staff photographer at the Houston Chronicle but at the time a Houston-based freelancer, received the news on his pager and headed directly to Johnson Space Center.
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