20 Years Ago: Remembering Columbia and Her Crew

Houston TX (SPX) Jan 26, 2023

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 to microgravity research in nearly five years, would not travel to the space s