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Columbia Accident Investigation Board Report Executive Summary - NASA The physical cause of the loss of Columbia and its crew was a breach in the Thermal Protection System on the leading edge of the left wing, caused by a piece of insulating foam which separated from the left bipod ramp section of the External Tank at 81 7 seconds after launch, and struck the wing in the vicinity of the lower half of Reinforced Carbon-Carbon panel number 8 During re-entry this
Grounding the Space Shuttle—NASA’s Foam Insulation Problem It is now more than 2 years since the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated during re-entry to the earth’s atmosphere on February 1, 2003, killing all seven astronauts aboard and, in the process, putting a spotlight on foam insulation In the years since the tragedy, the U S National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has sought a solution to a well-publicized problem with the foam
Columbia disaster | History Crew | Britannica The cause of the Columbia disaster was a piece of insulating foam that broke loose from the shuttle’s external propellant tank and struck the leading edge of the left wing soon after liftoff, damaging protective tiles During Columbia ’s atmospheric reentry, hot gases penetrated the damaged tile section and melted major structural elements of the wing, which eventually collapsed
Space Shuttle Columbia disaster - Wikipedia During launch, a piece of the insulating foam broke off from the Space Shuttle external tank and struck the thermal protection system tiles on the orbiter 's left wing
Engineer warned NASA of danger to shuttle - Feb. 22, 2003 - CNN On January 16, when Columbia was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, foam insulation fell off the shuttle's external fuel tank and hit the underside of the orbiter's left wing
An Overview of Spray-On Foam Insulation Applications on the Space . . . The Columbia Accident Investigation Board (CAIB) concluded that the cause of the tragic loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia and its crew was a breach in the thermal protection system on the leading edge of the left wing The breach was initiated by a piece of insulating foam that separated from the left bipod ramp of the External Tank and struck the wing in the vicinity of the lower half of
Cause and Consequences of the Columbia Disaster The Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 was launched on January 16, 2003 at 10:39 a m Eastern Standard Time At 81 7 seconds after launch, when the Shuttle was at about 20,000m and traveling at Mach 2 46 (2,655km h), a large piece of insulating foam came off the External Tank (ET) left bipod ramp area, close to where the orbiter attaches to the ET
The Columbia Disaster: Failures That Doomed The Space Shuttle Like the rest of the space shuttle fleet, Columbia was attached to a 153-foot long external fuel tank with two umbilical fittings and a titanium bipod coated with low-density foam This foam layer