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Is having the full details of the crew of STS-107 appropriate on this page, when they are given in the articles on STS-107 and on the Columbia disaster? - kiwiinapanic 03:32 Feb 2, 2003 (UTC)
If Space Shuttle Buran doesn't relate to Columbia, then how does
The only difference is the above are American, and the Buran was Soviet. It is not like there are 30 countries building space shuttles. There have only been a handful of shuttles sent into space by humans, and the Buran is one of them. To discount the Buran because it isn't NASA's, is being America-centric.
Kalpana Chawla was not the first astronaut of Indian birth. The first was Rakesh Sharma who went into space in 1984. This fact is mentioned in wiki's Kalpana Chawla page.
Jay 00:36, 11 Aug 2003 (UTC)
I think it's time to integrate Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and Space Shuttle Columbia into a single article. There is a lack of parallelism between the way the Columbia and Challenger articles are handled and I see no reason the disaster info can't be included in the main article (with a redirect at the disaster article so nobody is dead-ended). I plan to do this soon if no major objections arise. Jgm 15:13, 18 Nov 2003 (UTC)
The shuttle was was named after Columbia University b/c scientist at the university were the ones to invented the ceramic tiles that protected the shuttle from the heat of entering/exiting orbit.
I changed the picture of Columbia landing (in the history section) at the end of STS-73 to that of Columbia landing at the end of STS-1. The pictures are about the same quality but the historical significance of STS-1 seems greater than STS-73. It would seem, especially in the history section, that this image is a better fit. Triddle 02:49, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Can someone post this picture in the article? It's a nice photo that shows the NASA meatball logo and American flag & "Columbia" on the wings. http://www.ccastronomy.org/photo_shuttle_Columbia_STS-107_launch_portrait.jpg
This one shows Columbia's wing markings, too: http://www.vesmirweb.net/galerie/raketoplany/ig05_sts107_launch_02.jpg —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.130.233.72 (talk • contribs) 04:09, 24 May 2006 (UTC)
I remember watching Columbia's first launch, but can't remember the song that was played. It was on the TV news broadcasts. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.136.146.36 (talk • contribs) 07:25, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
The anachronism could be resolved by figuring the old fellow had a _really_ tough job finding all the parts and rebuilding Columbia. ;) The episode shows a novel method of launching the Shuttle horizontally using JATO rockets on either side of the nose and a jettisonable fuel tank in the cargo bay. Whether or not that would actually work... The show is set in the future, so one could presume more energetic fuels and a superlight composite material for the fuel tank. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 67.136.146.36 (talk • contribs) 07:25, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
" . . . The caib discovered that on the morning of January 17, the day after the launch, the low-level engineers at the Kennedy Space Center whose job was to review the launch videos and film were immediately concerned by the size and speed of the foam that had struck the shuttle. As expected of them, they compiled the imagery and disseminated it by e-mail to various shuttle engineers and managers—most significantly those in charge of the shuttle program at the Johnson Space Center. Realizing that their blurred or otherwise inadequate pictures showed nothing of the damage that might have been inflicted, and anticipating the need for such information by others, the engineers at Kennedy then went outside normal channels and on their own initiative approached the Department of Defense with a request that secret military satellites or ground-based high-resolution cameras be used to photograph the shuttle in orbit. After a delay of several days for the back-channel request to get through, the Air Force proved glad to oblige, and made the first moves to honor the request. Such images would probably have shown a large hole in the left wing—but they were never taken. . . "--the Atlantic, November 2003. [4th page, roughly a quarter to a third of the way down]
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/11/columbia-apos-s-last-flight/4204/4/
" . . . What the Debris Assessment engineers could not imagine is that no photos had been taken, or ever would be—and essentially for lack of curiosity by NASA's imperious, self-convinced managers. What those managers in turn could not imagine was that people in their own house might really be concerned. The communication gap had nothing to do with security clearances, and it was complete. . . " [roughly three-fourths of the way down
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2003/11/columbia-apos-s-last-flight/4204/4/
The original patch has finally been unveiled, approved by NASA just one day before we lost Columbia. needs to be added to the article. The designer of many of the mission patches talked about it in this thread.
http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum18/HTML/000409.html 2600:1700:AB0:4210:84D:35F0:B3F2:C6FE (talk) 02:38, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
This was the first Space Shuttle. History section isn't anywhere near as detailed as those for Discovery, Endeavour, and Atlantis. Columbia had a lot of history besides STS-107. 2600:1700:AB0:4210:B828:A267:53A9:AA7E (talk) 18:59, 16 August 2024 (UTC)
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