![]() ![]() Within hours, the formal Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) began its work. On February 1, 2003, the nation witnessed in real time the disintegration of the Shuttle Orbiter Columbia as it attempted to re-enter the atmosphere after its 15-day mission. The Columbia Accident Investigation and the Flight Day 2 Object– a Brief Recap Beginning with the Columbia investigation and ending with the creation and deployment of the NASA Ascent Debris Radar (NDR) System, this article will cover the “Electromagnetics (EM) Backstory” that was instrumental in allowing the Shuttle to safely fly again. While much has been written about the Shuttle program, this specific article will focus on a very little-known element of the Shuttle’s return-to-flight (RTF) story. ![]() The Shuttle’s subsequent 22 missions made possible the completion of the assembly of the International Space Station (ISS) and provided a final service call for the Hubble Space Telescope, before the Shuttle fleet was retired in 2011. After a lengthy accident investigation and root cause analysis, the Shuttle successfully flew again on July 26, 2005. This accident not only personally affected the extended families of the astronauts, it permanently changed the trajectory of the U.S. O n February 1, 2003, NASA’s Space Shuttle Orbiter Columbia broke apart upon re-entry into the earth’s atmosphere, tragically ending the lives of seven highly-trained and experienced astronauts. With deepest respect, this article is dedicated to the extended families and friends of the astronauts lost on Columbia’s final Shuttle mission. How Applied Electromagnetics Guided the 22 Post-Columbia Shuttle Missions “The fact that we’re here today is a testimony to all that work that that team did.”įollow Orlando Sentinel space coverage at /goforlaunchsentinel. “These are real human endeavors and there’s a team here that had to recover from the hurricane last week, get back, get the Kennedy Space Center back open, get things cleaned up, get us ready to go,” she said. With less than a week since Hurricane Ian passed right between launch pads 39-A and 39-B, Kathy Lueders, NASA’s associate administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate praised those who put in extra effort to pull off Wednesday’s launch. He highlighted three including a custom-fitted bio monitoring suit to investigation astronaut cardiorespiratory health, a “gut on a chip microbiome study” with 10 different species of bacteria that have a role of human health, and the return of a 3-D human tissue printing experiment that will among its goals print tissue “used for organ repair and hopefully one day transplantation.” Kirt Costello, NASA’s chief scientist for the ISS program said 76 are new investigations to the space station. Once we get on orbit and get moving we’ll be able to refine the landing time for Crew-4.”Ĭrew-5 is slated to stay on board about 150 days, he said, with more than 230 experiments on tap of human research, commercialization and technology development. “This handover between the two crews will be about five days. “We’re looking forward to another handover mission,” said NASA’s International Space Station manager Joel Montalbano. ![]() Until Boeing’s Starliner is certified, SpaceX is on tap to continue the twice-a-year rotational flights with Crew-6 slated to arrive in March 2023. Crew Dragon Endurance is making its second flight having also launched on the Crew-3 mission in 2021.īoeing’s Starliner has yet to fly its first humans, but could be making that trip by February 2023 so that the Crew-5 members will get to welcome them on board during their stay. SpaceX sent its first Crew Dragon with passengers on a test flight with NASA astronauts Behnken and Doug Hurley less than 2 1/2 years ago, and has also since flown missions with civilians among its four Crew Dragon spacecraft so that Crew-5 marks the eighth capsule flight now having taken 30 people into space. “They’ve been a good partner for NASA and it shows that this commercial public-private partnership is actually working.” “SpaceX has really been inventive, creative,” Nelson said. SpaceX and Boeing with its CST-100 Starliner were contracted under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program to provide the service flights ending NASA’s reliance on rides from Russia during the decade after the end of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. “Now we continue our cooperation.”Ĭrew-5 marks the fifth rotational mission to the ISS that sends up four astronauts at a time for six-month stays on board. ![]() “We just continue what was started many years ago in 1975 when Apollo-Soyuz crew worked together,” said Sergei Krikalev, executive director for Human Space Flight Programs with Roscosmos during a post-launch press conference. ![]()
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