Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster, explosion upon re-entry
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What we see is the reason for the shuttle tiles: plasma surrounding the shuttle during its reentry to Earth's atmosphere. Nasa says the shuttle is returning tomorrow (Mar. 26, or it may be the 27th.). This shuttle reentry painting first appeared on this site in 2006 in a 5 page group. It is being re-introduced to the photostream today for new people, and because wonderful new links are available now. For the full text on this (strange but normal) phenomenon, go to the original page…
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The chaotic final moments of the doomed space shuttle Columbia have been detailed in a report by NASA. All seven were killed as it disintegrated on re-entering the Earth's atmosphere with a hole in its wing.
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Death by PowerPoint: the slide that killed seven people — mcdreeamie-musings
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SpacePorn is a subreddit devoted to beautiful space images 🚀🌌. As long as the focus of the image is related to space in some way, it is...
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Under a clear blue sky, Space Shuttle Discovery is ready for launch of mission STS-116 from Launch Pad 39B. Atop the fixed service structure at left looms the 80-foot-high lightning mast, part of the lightning protection system on the pad. Beneath Discovery's wings are the tail masts, which provide several umbilical connections to the orbiter, including a liquid-oxygen line through one and a liquid-hydrogen line through another. Seen above the golden external…
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"Space Shuttle Columbia disaster: shuttle disintegrates in reentry, killing seven astronauts in 2003". The New York Daily News. (February 2, 2003). The space shuttle, Columbia, burst into flames and broke apart over Texas on February 1, 2003. Retrieved on December 4, 2017, from http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/shuttle-explodes-7-astronauts-die-worst-blow-nasa-article-1.666537
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Gemini VIII retrieval
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New #3DPrinting Technique Makes Complex #Ceramics for #Spaceships
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Soviet Buran Space Shuttle http://www.buran.ru./
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The interior of the original Soyuz 28 reentry capsule that landed march 10th, 1978 close to Tselinograd. It's 2.20m x 2.65m and there are two cosmonauts in there. Not exactly business class. The huge hatch is visible on the left. The bulgy thing on the right contained the parachute. There is a small instrument panel visible at the bottom. - Photo taken at Prague - Kbely (LKKB) in Czech Republic on September 9, 2007.
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S81-30744 (14 April 1981) -- The rear wheels of the space shuttle orbiter Columbia are about to touch down on Rogers Lake (a dry bed) at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California to successfully complete a stay in space of more than two days. Astronauts John W. Young, STS-1 commander, and Robert L. Crippen, pilot, are aboard the vehicle. The mission marked the first NASA flight to end with a wheeled landing and represents the beginning of a new age of spaceflight that will employ the…
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The history of the Nasa Space Shuttle in pictures.
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Space shuttle takeoff
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