On the morning of Feb. 1, 2003, Sen. Mark Kelly was still in bed when his brother and fellow astronaut called him. The news was bleak: The Columbia Space Shuttle had lost contact with Houston. Kelly knew all 7 astronauts on board.
STS-107 Crew : Mission Specialist 1 David M. Brown, Pilot William C. McCool, Payload Commander Michael P. Anderson : Mission Specialist 2 Kalpana Chawla, Commander Rick D. Husband, Mission Specialist 4 Laurel Blair Salton Clark, Payload Specialist 1 Ilan Ramon.
It was Feb. 1, 2003, just before 9 a.m. Astronaut Mark Kelly was in bed at his home in Houston when his brother and fellow astronaut Scott Kelly called. After Houston lost communication with the astronauts, the shuttle’s cabin came apart in hypersonic airflow. All seven on board immediately died. A piece of foam the size of a briefcase meant to keep temperatures regulated on the shuttle had broken away during liftoff weeks earlier. Without that piece of foam, white-hot plasma infiltrated the shuttle, throwing it out of control.
Mark Kelly — now a Democratic senator for Arizona — knew all the astronauts aboard the Columbia and took classes with three of them when he started at NASA.“20 years ago was one that I will never forget, that day and the day after,” Kelly says. “And I spend some time thinking about my friends and colleagues and the ultimate sacrifice that they made for exploration and for our country.”“I knew all of them really well. Three were my astronaut classmates, meaning we got there at the same time.
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