Preface.- Foreword by a famous astronautIntroduction.- STS-107 Columbia s Final Mission.- The Mission how it came to be.- The Astronauts.- It isn t just Astronauts - The People behind the Scenes.- Understanding NASA.- The Eighteen delays Was this mission NASA s Unwanted Stepchild?- Training for the Mission.- Prequel The STS-113 Flight Readiness Review.- Preparing for Launch10 Launch Day January 16 2003.- Behind the Scenes Engineers Analysing What Damage the Foam could have done.- Sixteen Days in Space the Science, the Crew s activities.- Living in Space.- Re-entry February 1st.- Aftermath Recovery of the Bodies the Debris Recovery Operations Etc.- The Search for Debris.- Other Evidence.- Protecting the Shuttle from the Heat of Reentry.- Recreating What Happened the story, the debris and OEX told.- Closing Down the Investigation.- 20/20 Hindsight.- Kooks and Myths.- Could a Rescue have been possible?- Memorials to the Crew.- The Science not lost Columbia s Legacy.- What Happened, Why it Happened, What could have been done differently?- Comparisons Columbia vs Challenger.- Ironies If Something were just a little different.- Appendices.- Maps.- Annotated Transcript of Mission Control Flight Director s Loop.- The STS-107.- Flame Balls.- The American Indian Tribes involved in the Columbia Debris Recovery.- Columbia s History.- Columbia s previous flights.- The STS-107 Crew Patch.- The 18 delays to STS-107.- Special Thanks.- Bibliography.- Glossary.- Index.- Trivia.
EAN/ISBN : 9780387271491
Publisher(s): Springer, Berlin, Praxis Publishing
Discussed keywords: Columbia (Space Shuttle), Raumtransporter
Format: ePub/PDF

Author(s): Chien, Philip