Sentences with phrase «space shuttle broke»

8 am — All vehicle data was lost at 207,135 ft above the Earth at Mach 18.3 (about 12,500 mph) when the Columbia Space Shuttle broke up over north - central Texas.

For example, he said, after NASA's Columbia space shuttle broke up over the US in 2003, investigators recovered a working flight computer — an artifact that ultimately helped explain how the deadly incident happened.

For example, he said, after NASA's Columbia space shuttle broke up over the US in 2003, investigators recovered a working flight computer.

He found this so much so that he believed it could have been the cause of one of the space shuttles breaking apart.

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Researchers have finally published the results of data recovered from a cracked and singed hard drive that fell to Earth in the debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia, which broke up during reentry on February 1, 2003, killing all seven crew members.

A new atmospheric phenomenon was caught on video by the crew of the space shuttle Columbia just days before the shuttle broke apart, new findings suggest.

This practice was continued for more than a year, through the ill - fated STS - 107 flight of the space shuttle Columbia, which broke apart during re-entry on Feb. 1, 2003.

Looking back at it, [that program] meant that the money that could have been used to develop the shuttle replacement and do some other research ended up going to the Russians to finish the space station, then they broke the agreement and didn't pay for what they agreed on.

On Feb. 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke apart upon reentry.

On the morning of February 1st, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke up during re-entry, more than 200,000 feet above Texas.

The reason for the break up: it seems the left wing was hit by a piece of foam from the Space Shuttle External Tank (ET) during launch.

In an address to the nation on Saturday 1st at 4.45 EST, President George W. Bush confirmed the space shuttle Columbia and its crew of seven were lost after the Orbiter broke up during reentry on its landing approach to the Kennedy Space Cespace shuttle Columbia and its crew of seven were lost after the Orbiter broke up during reentry on its landing approach to the Kennedy Space CeSpace Center.

Director: Walter Hill Cast: James Spader, Angela Bassett, Peter Facinelli, Lou Diamond Phillips, Robin Tunney, Wilson Cruz and Robert Forster Plot: A medical space shuttle answers a distress signal which leaves them with a broken vessel, a mysterious stranger and a possible alien artefact.

From Russian scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky's ground - breaking theoretical work in 1903 to NASA's Space Shuttle program nearly 100 years later, the drive to explore continues to push the limits of science and ingenuity.