Ruth StoneFeb 2, 2023
NASA

#NASARemembers: 20 years ago #OTD, Feb 1, 2003, at 8:59am ET, space shuttle Columbia broke up on reentry. The entire crew perished.

Rick Husband
Willie McCool
Michael Anderson
Kalpana Chawla
David Brown
Laurel Clark
Ilan Ramon

We will never forget. https://go.nasa.gov/3YezowF
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20 Years Ago: Remembering Columbia and Her Crew

The year 2003 was shaping up to be an ambitious one for NASA, with six space shuttle missions planned, five to continue construction of the ever-growing and permanently occupied International Space Station. The first flight of the year, STS-107 aboard NASA’s oldest orbiter Columbia, the first shuttle mission dedicated...

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Feb 1, 2023 at 3:02pmWeb
Show threadLordWoolamalooFeb 1, 2023
@nasa the final frontier often demands a terribly heavy price. But it doesn't stop us pushing on, exploring further. If anything it increases our determination to explore, because to do otherwise would dishonour the memories of those who we lost in these early steps into the vaster universe.
Show threadMikeZilla Minus OneFeb 1, 2023

@LordWoolamaloo @nasa

well said, Bruce

Show threadPeace CoveyFeb 1, 2023

@nasa
Wrote this (chorus) day after that sad event

What is a challenge without a challenger
Who holds the future without a dream
Tell me
What good's an answer
Without a question at first
We've been ridin' on a miracle it seems

Peace

Show threadMikeZilla Minus OneFeb 1, 2023
@nasa i saw that on tv - i remember where i was too - horrible
Show threadSimple ManFeb 1, 2023
@nasa The Space Shuttle was the most dangerous human space transportation system ever designed!
Show threadZZ BottomFeb 1, 2023
@nasa 
Show threadReynardineFeb 2, 2023
@nasa
I cried for three days. I don't cry.