{"id":959708,"date":"2021-02-01T12:08:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T18:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=959708"},"modified":"2021-02-02T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T18:08:00","slug":"space-shuttle-columbia-disaster-17-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=959708","title":{"rendered":"Space Shuttle Columbia disaster 18 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/02\/Crew-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-959712\" \/>TYLER &#8212; Monday marked a somber anniversary for NASA and people impacted across East Texas. The first day of February, 2003, was the day of the Columbia Space Shuttle catastrophe and its breakup over Texas. After more than two weeks in space, upon re-entry to the earth&#8217;s atmosphere, the shuttle was shredded while crossing the western United States. Investigators said the shuttle, traveling at 14,400 m.p.h., finally disintegrated east of Dallas, with most of the debris coming down over east Texas and western Louisiana.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/02\/NASA-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-959710\" \/>Unknown to the crew, there was a hole in the leading edge of the left wing that had been there since launch, when a 1.8-pound piece of foam broke free from the aircraft and struck it roughly 80 seconds after its engines fired. The official government report found no error on part of the crew onboard the shuttle, saying they acted correctly at the first sign of trouble. <\/p>\n<p>The seven astronauts killed were:<br \/>\n    Commander Rick Husband<br \/>\n    Pilot William C. McCool<br \/>\n    Payload Commander Michael P. Anderson<br \/>\n    Mission Specialist Kalpana Chawla<br \/>\n    Missioner Specialist David M. Brown<br \/>\n    Mission Specialist Laurel Clark<br \/>\n    Mission Specialist IIan Ramon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER &#8212; Monday marked a somber anniversary for NASA and people impacted across East Texas. The first day of February, 2003, was the day of the Columbia Space Shuttle catastrophe and its breakup over Texas. After more than two weeks in space, upon re-entry to the earth&#8217;s atmosphere, the shuttle was shredded while crossing the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=959708\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Space Shuttle Columbia disaster 18 years later<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":959859,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/02\/Crew-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Space Shuttle Columbia disaster 17 later","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-959708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-30 01:32:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2021\/02\/Crew-150x150.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Space Shuttle Columbia disaster 17 later","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=959708"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":959858,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959708\/revisions\/959858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/959859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=959708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=959708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=959708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}