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Space Shuttle Columbia Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia
On February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated during reentry at the end of mission STS-107, killing all seven crew members.
March 30th, 1982 - Space Shuttle Columbia lands at White Sands Space Harbor Runway 17 in New Mexico following the third successful test flight of the orbiter.
Due to rain at Cape Canaveral, and high cross winds at Edwards Air Force Base, White Sands was chosen as the contingency landing area for this mission. STS-3 would be the only mission in which a shuttle landed anywhere other than Edwards or Kennedy Space Center.
STS-3 launched 8 days earlier with Commander Jack Lousma and Pilot Charles Gordon Fullerton. This mission focused on testing of the Canadarm as well as a general shakedown of the shuttle itself, exposing areas of the orbiter to the sun for periods of time to study structural behavior.
(via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_t2SFKN-Bcs)
The second mission of the Space Shuttle Columbia STS-2, launched November 12, 1981. Carrying Joe Engle and Richard Truly on their first spaceflight. The first steps of the previous spaceflight era, 2nd and final flight of the white External Tank. (And last all-rookie crew to fly for NASA)
Delightfully synth-wave scored launch at 7:19!
“Space Art - “Columbia Launch Fantasy,” Mixed media painting by artist Andreas Nottebohm is his interpretation of the first launch of the Space Shuttle Columbia, April 12, 1981, Kennedy Space Center.
(NASA Art Program)”
NASA ID: 82-H-300
Striking view of STS-3 Columbia's rollout to Pad 39A.
Date: February 16, 1982
NASA ID: 108-KSC-82PC-191
"Johnson Space Center employees and neighbors on the ground didn't get quite this closeup of a view of the Dec. 19 1990 flyover of the Space Shuttle Columbia mounted piggyback atop NASA's Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA--NASA 905). However, hundreds were able to spot it as it passed nearby en route to Florida from California following the successful STS-35 mission. Almost the entire 1625-acre site of the Johnson Space Center is visible in the background, along with a number of businesses and residences in the nearby municipality of Nassau Bay. The air-to-air photograph was taken by Pete Stanley of JSC's Image Services Division who was a passenger in a T-38 jet aircraft."
Date: December 19, 1990
NASA ID: S90-55294