Seven astronauts lost their lives on space shuttle Columbia on Feb. 1, 2003, due to a series of technical and organizational problems at NASA.
According to that board, the primary technical cause of the incident was a piece of foam insulation that fell loose from a"bipod" region of the external fuel tank during the flight's launch on Jan. 16, striking the leading edge of Columbia's left wing.
"Mission managers understood that the relevant question was not whether foam posed a safety-of-flight issue — it did — but rather whether the observed foam strike contained sufficient kinetic energy to cause damage that could lead to a burn-through," CAIB wrote in the second volume of its report. Space historian John Logsdon served on CAIB and told Space.com that, in his view, several of the problems identified in thespace shuttle's fatal accident of 1986, which killed seven astronauts, recurred during Columbia.
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