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Columbia Disaster

The Space Shuttle Columbia is breaking apart during re-entry over Texas, while Mission Control in Houston frantically monitors the situation. Communication is lost, and telemetry data indicates catast

Year 2003
Date 2/1
Location Over Texas, Johnson Space Center, Houston
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Visibility PUBLIC
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Key Figures

Flight Director CAPCOM Flight Controller NASA Technician
Time Travel

Causal neighbors · 406 linked moments

A
Apollo 13 Accident
1970 · same figure
S
Space Shuttle Columbia STS-1
1981 · same figure
S
STS-114 Return to Flight
2005 · same figure
S
Salyut 6 Launch
1977 · same figure
A
Apollo 11 Moon Landing
1969 · same figure
V
Vostok 1 Launch
1961 · same figure
S
STS-26 Return to Flight Mission
1988 · same figure
S
STS-1: First Space Shuttle Flight
1981 · same figure
A
Apollo 12 Launch
1969 · same figure
A
Apollo 11 Launch
1969 · same figure
S
Skylab Launch
1973 · same figure
A
Apollo 6 Launch
1968 · same figure
F
Friendship 7 Launch
1962 · same figure
A
Apollo 11 Launch
1969 · same figure
Apollo 13 Oxygen Tank Explosion
Apollo 13 Oxygen Tank Explosion
1970 · same figure
S
Space Shuttle Columbia STS-1 Launch
1981 · same figure
S
STS-135 Atlantis Final Launch
2011 · same figure
A
Apollo 7 Launch
1968 · same figure
S
STS-1 Launch
1981 · same figure
G
Gemini 4 (Ed White's Spacewalk)
1965 · same figure
S
STS-107 Launch
2003 · same figure
S
Space Shuttle Discovery STS-26 Return to Flight
1988 · same figure
S
Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster
2003 · same figure
A
Apollo 13 Oxygen Tank Explosion
1970 · same figure
G
Gemini 3 Launch
1965 · same figure
Z
Zarya Module Launch (First ISS Component)
1998 · same figure
S
Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
1986 · same figure
A
Apollo 11 Saturn V Launch
1969 · same figure
S
Space Shuttle Discovery STS-26 Return-to-Flight Launch
1988 · same figure
A
Apollo 11 Launch
1969 · same figure
S
Space Shuttle Discovery STS-114 Return to Flight
2005 · same figure
S
STS-115 (Atlantis ISS Assembly Mission)
2006 · same figure
A
Apollo 13 Launch
1970 · same figure
A
Apollo Launch (Apollo-Soyuz Test Project)
1975 · same figure
A
Apollo 12 Lightning Strike
1969 · same figure
A
Apollo 7 Launch
1968 · same figure