Ten years have passed since the space shuttle Columbia disaster, which killed seven crew members. On Feb. 1, 2003 the shuttle disintegrated as it was reentering the Earth's atmosphere.
In remembrance, here's a look at the shuttle and crew (read more after the photos):
The crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia; specialists Kalpana Chawla and Laurel Clark, pilot William 'Willie' McCool, commander Rick Husband, mission specialist David Brown, payload specialist Ilan Ramon and payload commander Michael Anderson.
The crew of Space Shuttle Columbia's mission STS-107, pose for the traditional crew portrait.
The Space Shuttle Columbia on Jan. 15, 2003 at Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The Space Shuttle Columbia, on ill fated mission STS-107, launches from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center Jan. 16, 2003.
A group of people watch as the Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The sunrise over Earth is shown from the cabin of the Space Shuttle Columbia while in orbit on Jan. 22, 2003.
Astronauts Rick D. Husband and Ilan Ramon in orbit on Jan. 21, 2003 - aboard the ill fated Space Shuttle Columbia.
Astronauts Laurel B. Clark and Rick D. Husband respectively, are shown near supportive equipment for experiments done aboard the shuttle.
In this image from NASA video, Mission Specialist David Brown is seen on the flight deck of the Space Shuttle Columbia.
This image from a NASA handout video shows a close up of a piece of debris falling from the external tank, then striking the left wing of the Space Shuttle Columbia during launch on Jan.16, 2003. NASA officials noticed this piece of debris during lift off of Columbia, but did not consider it a major problem at the time.
This NASA handout image shows the Space Shuttle Columbia during reentry as it passes over the Starfire Optical Range at Kirkland Air Force Base, New Mexico on Feb. 1, 2003. Shuttle crash investigators have scrutinized this image which some believe shows damage to the left wing of the shuttle.
This image from the National Weather Service shows a radar image of debris from the break up of the Space Shuttle Columbia, near Shreveport, Louisiana.
NASA Mission Control went quiet shortly after contact was lost with the Space Shuttle Columbia on Feb. 1, 2003 in Houston, Texas.
NASA Headquarters personnel watch NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe's statement following the loss of Space Shuttle Columbia.
President George W. Bush addressing the nation after NASA Mission Control lost contact with the Columbia Space Shuttle.
NBC news anchor Tom Brokaw, reporting on the disaster from Kennedy Space Center on Feb. 1, 2003 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Mourners look at a flag flying at half-staff during a <em>Memorial to Our Astronauts </em>service for the Space Shuttle Columbia crew in Newport, Kentucky.
Astronaut Michael P. Anderson, a 43-year-old lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force, served as a payload commander and mission specialist aboard Space Shuttle Columbia.
Astronaut Laurel B. Clark, a 41-year-old commander (captain-select) and naval flight surgeon in the U.S. Navy, served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.
Astronaut Ilan Ramon, a colonel in the Israeli Air Force, was NASA's first Israeli astronaut. He served as mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia.
Astronaut Rick D. Husband, a 45-year-old colonel in the U.S. Air Force and commander aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia.
Astronaut Kalpana Chawla, a 41-year-old flight engineer and mission specialist aboard Space Shuttle Columbia.
Astronaut William C. McCool, a 41-year-old commander in the U.S. Navy served as pilot on the Space Shuttle Columbia.
Astronaut David M. Brown, a 46-year-old captain in the U.S. Navy, served as a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Columbia.
A flower arrangement in front of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Makeshift memorials were set up hours after the seven-person crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia died on Feb. 1, 2003.
Photos of the Columbia crew are displayed at the Crystal Cathedral church Feb. 4, 2003 in Garden Grove, California.
As past meets present, lessons learned from the Columbia disaster are being applied now with the development of NASA's next-generation spacecraft Orion. The spaceship is slated to serve as the primary crew vehicle for missions beyond low-Earth orbit.
"We examined all the lethal events that occurred in Columbia and addressed each of them in the Orion," Dustin Gohmert, NASA crew survival engineering team lead, at Johnson Space Center in Houston, told Space.com. "We're doing a whole lot of things to make it safer, and everything we've learned from the shuttle accidents, from Russian space accidents, automobile accidents--we've taken lessons from all of them and tried to incorporate them into Orion."
The anniversaries for both the Apollo 1 fire, which happened in 1967, and the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster recently took place in January. They go to show that the Columbia disaster was not an isolated event, G. Ryan Faith, research analyst for the Space Foundation, told The Huffington Post.
"The space shuttle was an attempt to figure out what NASA would be after the end of the Apollo Program," he said, "and the Columbia disaster showed us that the shuttle could not be the answer to that question. Ten years on, we don?t really know what the answer to the question is, but we?re making progress in understanding the real underlying nature of a space program, and how people intend to address and live in the entire rest of the universe."
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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/01/columbia-shuttle-disaster-tragedy_n_2585103.html
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