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2003-02-01 - 12:15 p.m.
STS-107 Crew Statistics Commander..Air Force Col. Rick Husband, 45; STS-96; M/2; DOB: 07/12/57 Pilot..Navy Cmdr. William McCool, 41; Rookie; M/0; DOB: 09/23/61 MS1..Navy Capt. David Brown, 46; Rookie; S/?; DOB: 04/16/56 MS2/FE..Kalpana Chawla, Ph.D., 41; STS-87; S/?; DOB: 07/01/61 MS3..Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Anderson, 42; STS-89; M/0; DOB: 12/25/59 MS4..Laurel Clark, M.D., 41; Rookie; M/1; DOB: 03/10/61 PS1..Israeli Air Force Col. Ilan Ramon, 48; Rookie; M/4; DOB: 06/20/54 LANDING..........ASTRONAUT.........SEAT Commander..Husband..Up: Front left Pilot..McCool..Up: Front right MS1..Brown..Down MS2..Chawla..Up: Aft center MS3..Anderson..Down MS4..Clark..Up: Aft right PS1..Ramon..Down STS-107 GENERAL MISSION BACKGROUND Mission...........STS-107 (flight 113) Orbiter...........Columbia (28th flight) Columbia..........284/19:19:01 STS Program.......1015/14:14:51 Main engines......SSME 1: 2056-2; SSME 2: 2053-2; SSME 3: 2049-2 SRB...............Bi116/RSRM88 External tank.....93 (lwt) OMS pods..........RPO5/16/F2-LPO5/17/F2 FRCS..............FRC2/28:F2 Fuel Cells........No. 1: TBD; No. 2: TBD; No. 3: TBD Flight software...OI-29 Pad/MLP...........LC-39A/MLP-1 Runway............33/15, KSC Shuttle Landing Facility MECO Apo/Per......TBD OMS-2 Apo/Per.....150 nautical miles Inclination.......39 degrees Primary TAL site..Ben Guerir (Abort Data) Cryo/N2 tanks.....9 PRSD/5 GN2 Payload...........Double Spacehab microgravity research; Freestar RMS...............None Airlock...........Internal Tunnel adapter....Yes NASA Television reported Saturday morning that communications were lost with Shuttle Columbia at approximately 8 a.m. EST over north-central Texas. Columbia was at approximately 200,000 feet altitude. Debris has been sighted in north central Texas. Search and rescue has been dispatched in Dallas-Fort Worth area.
Challenger...28 Jan 1986
Columbia..... 1 Feb 2003
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