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Columbia disaster 20 years later


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 1.8 years ago

20 years ago on this fateful day Columbia ,returning on its 28th and final flight burned up on re entry killing all 8 Astronauts on board. We shall never forget these people that wanted to inspire and help humanity around the world may their souls fly high in space

Rick Husband
William C. McCool
David M. Brown
Kalpana Chawla
Michael P. Anderson
Laurel Clark
And Ilan Ramon

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    Columbia flew 28 missions, gathering 300.74 days spent in space with 4,808 orbits and a total distance of 125,204,911.5 miles (201,497,773.1 km) until STS-107.

    Though having been in service during the Shuttle-Mir and International Space Station programs, Columbia did not fly any missions that visited a space station. The other three active orbiters at the time had visited both Mir and the ISS at least once. Columbia was not suited for high-inclination missions.

    src: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceShuttleColumbia>

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