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{{Short description|2003 failed flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia}}
{{About|the final mission of the Space Shuttle ''Columbia''|detailed information on the accident|Space Shuttle Columbia disaster{{!}}Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' disaster}}
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{{Infobox spaceflight
| name                  = STS-107
| names_list            = [[Space Transportation System]]-107
| image                 = Spacehab S107e05359.jpg
| image_caption         = Spacehab's Research Double Module in ''Columbia''{{'}}s payload bay during STS-107
| insignia              = STS-107 Flight Insignia.svg
| insignia_caption      = STS-107 mission patch

| spacecraft            = {{OV|102}}
| mission_type          = Microgravity research
| operator              = [[NASA]]
| COSPAR_ID             = <!-- Wikidata -->
| SATCAT                = <!-- Wikidata -->
| mission_duration      = 15&nbsp;days, 22&nbsp;hours, 20&nbsp;minutes, 32&nbsp;seconds
| orbits_completed      = 255
| distance_travelled    = {{convert|6600000|mi}} 
| launch_mass           = {{convert|263706|lb}}
| landing_mass          = {{convert|232793|lb}} (expected)
| payload_mass          = {{convert|32084|lb}}

| crew_size             = 7
| crew_members          =  {{Unbulleted list|[[Rick Husband|Rick D. Husband]]|[[William C. McCool]]|[[David M. Brown]]|[[Kalpana Chawla]]|[[Michael P. Anderson]]|[[Laurel B. Clark]]|[[Ilan Ramon]]}}
| crew_photo            = Crew of STS-107, official photo.jpg
| crew_photo_caption    = Rear (L-R): David Brown, Laurel Clark, Michael Anderson, Ilan Ramon; <br/>Front (L-R): Rick Husband, Kalpana Chawla, William McCool

| launch_site           = [[Kennedy Space Center|Kennedy]], [[Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A|LC-39A]]
| launch_date           = {{start date text|January 16, 2003 15:39:00|timezone=yes}}&nbsp;UTC

| decay_date            = {{end date text|February 1, 2003, 13:59:32|timezone=yes}}&nbsp;UTC<br/>{{small|[[Space Shuttle Columbia disaster|Disintegrated during reentry]]}}
| landing_site          = Kennedy, [[Shuttle Landing Facility|SLF&nbsp;Runway&nbsp;33]] (planned)

| apsis                 = gee
| orbit_epoch           = 
| orbit_reference       = [[geocentric orbit|Geocentric]]
| orbit_regime          = [[Low Earth orbit|Low Earth]]
| orbit_apoapsis        = {{convert|177|mi}}
| orbit_periapsis       = {{convert|170|mi}}
| orbit_period          = 90.1 minutes
| orbit_inclination     = 39.0 degrees

| programme             = [[Space Shuttle program]]
| previous_mission      = [[STS-113]]
| next_mission          = [[STS-114]]
}}

'''STS-107''' was the 113th flight of the [[Space Shuttle program]], and the 28th and final flight of [[Space Shuttle Columbia|Space Shuttle ''Columbia'']]. The mission ended on February 1, 2003, with the [[Space Shuttle Columbia disaster|Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' disaster]], in which all seven crew members were killed; the shuttle was destroyed along with most of its scientific payloads. It was the 88th post-[[Challenger disaster|''Challenger'' disaster]] mission.

The flight launched from [[Kennedy Space Center]] in Florida on January 16, 2003. It spent 15 days, 22 hours, 20 minutes, 32 seconds in [[orbit]]. The crew conducted a multitude of international scientific experiments.<ref name="sts107-science">{{Cite web |date=May 30, 2003 |title=HSF - STS-107 Science |url=http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/archives/sts-107/science/index.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120903010646/http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/archives/sts-107/science/index.html |archive-date=September 3, 2012 |access-date=September 2, 2012 |publisher=[[NASA]] }}</ref> The disaster occurred during reentry while the orbiter was over [[Texas]].

Immediately after the disaster, NASA convened the [[Columbia Accident Investigation Board|''Columbia'' Accident Investigation Board]] to determine the cause of the disintegration. The source of the failure was determined to have been caused by a piece of [[foam]] that broke off during launch and damaged the thermal protection system ([[reinforced carbon-carbon]] panels and [[thermal protection tiles]]) on the leading edge of the [[Space Shuttle orbiter|orbiter's]] left wing. During re-entry the damaged wing slowly overheated and came apart, eventually leading to loss of control and disintegration of the vehicle. The cockpit window frame is now exhibited in a memorial inside the Space Shuttle ''[[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Atlantis]]'' Pavilion at the Kennedy Space Center.

The damage to the thermal protection system on the wing was similar to that of ''Atlantis'' which had also sustained damage in 1988 during [[STS-27]], the second mission after the Space Shuttle ''Challenger'' disaster.  However, the damage on STS-27 occurred at a spot that had more robust metal (a thin steel plate near the landing gear), and that mission survived the re-entry.

==Crew==
{{Spaceflight crew
|terminology       = Astronaut
|position1         = Commander
|crew1_up          = {{Flagicon|USA}} [[Rick Husband]] [[Image:Solid red.svg|8px|Member of Red Team]]
|flights1_up       = Second and last
|position2         = Pilot
|crew2_up          = {{Flagicon|USA}} [[William C. McCool]] [[Image:Solid blue.svg|8px|Member of Blue Team]]
|flights2_up       = Only
|position3         = Mission Specialist 1
|crew3_up          = {{Flagicon|USA}} [[David M. Brown]] [[Image:Solid blue.svg|8px|Member of Blue Team]]
|flights3_up       = Only
|position4         = Mission Specialist 2<br>Flight Engineer
|crew4_up          = {{Flagicon|USA}}{{NNBSP}}/{{NNBSP}}{{Flagicon|India}} [[Kalpana Chawla]] [[Image:Solid red.svg|8px|Member of Red Team]]
|flights4_up       = Second and last
|position5         = Mission Specialist 3
|crew5_up          = {{Flagicon|USA}} [[Michael P. Anderson]] [[Image:Solid blue.svg|8px|Member of Blue Team]]
|flights5_up       = Second and last
|position6         = Mission Specialist 4
|crew6_up          = {{Flagicon|USA}} [[Laurel B. Clark]] [[Image:Solid red.svg|8px|Member of Red Team]]
|flights6_up       = Only
|position7         = Payload Specialist 1
|crew7_up          = {{Flagicon|ISR}} [[Ilan Ramon]], [[Israel Space Agency|ISA]] [[Image:Solid red.svg|8px|Member of Red Team]]
|flights7_up       = Only
| notes       = [[Image:Solid blue.svg|8px|Member of Blue Team]] Member of Blue Team<br>[[Image:Solid red.svg|8px|Member of Red Team]] Member of Red Team
}}

=== Crew seat assignments ===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
! Seat<ref>{{Cite web |title=STS-107 |url=http://spacefacts.de/mission/english/sts-107.htm |access-date=April 25, 2024 |publisher=Spacefacts}}</ref>
! Launch
! Landing
|rowspan=8| [[File:Space Shuttle seating plan.svg|150px]]<br />Seats 1–4 are on the flight deck.<br />Seats 5–7 are on the mid-deck.
|-
! 1
|colspan=2| Husband
|-
! 2
|colspan=2| McCool
|-
! 3
|Brown
|Clark
|-
! 4
|colspan=2| Chawla
|-
! 5
|colspan=2| Anderson
|-
! 6
|Clark
|Brown
|-
! 7
|colspan=2| Ramon
|}

==Mission highlights==
{{Expand section|date=January 2024}}
STS-107 carried the [[SPACEHAB]] Research Double Module ([[Research Double Module|RDM]]) on its inaugural flight, the [[Freestar experiment]] (mounted on a [[Hitchhiker Program]] rack), and the [[Extended Duration Orbiter]] pallet. SPACEHAB was first flown on STS-57.{{citation needed|date=February 2024}}

On the day of the experiment, a video taken to study atmospheric [[dust]] may have detected a new atmospheric phenomenon, dubbed a "TIGER" (Transient Ionospheric Glow Emission in Red).<ref name="newscientist-20050119">{{Cite magazine |last=Mckee |first=Maggie |date=January 19, 2005 |title=Columbia crew saw new atmospheric phenomenon |url=https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6897-columbia-crew-saw-new-atmospheric-phenomenon/ |url-status=live |magazine=[[New Scientist]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230606131513/https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6897-columbia-crew-saw-new-atmospheric-phenomenon/ |archive-date=June 6, 2023 |access-date=December 10, 2010 }}</ref>

On board ''Columbia'' was a [[:File:Earth seen from the Moon.jpg|copy of a drawing]] by [[Petr Ginz]], the editor-in-chief of the magazine ''[[Vedem]]'', who depicted what he imagined the [[Earth]] looked like from the [[Moon]] when he was a 14-year-old prisoner in the [[Concentration camp Theresienstadt|Terezín]] [[concentration camp]]. The copy was in the possession of [[Ilan Ramon]] and was lost in the disintegration. Ramon also traveled with a dollar bill received from the [[Menachem Mendel Schneerson#Sunday office hours for charity|Lubavitcher Rebbe]].<ref name="jta-20030127">{{Cite news |last=Brown |first=Irene |date=January 27, 2003 |title=Israeli astronaut busy up in space |work=[[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]] |location=Cape Canaveral, Fla. |url=https://www.jta.org/2003/01/27/lifestyle/israeli-astronaut-busy-up-in-space |url-status=live |access-date=May 22, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230328173648/https://www.jta.org/2003/01/27/lifestyle/israeli-astronaut-busy-up-in-space |archive-date=March 28, 2023 }}</ref>

An Australian experiment, created by students from [[Glen Waverley Secondary College]], was designed to test the reaction of zero gravity on the web formation of the [[Australian garden orb weaver spider]].<ref name="smh-20030202">{{Cite news |date=February 2, 2003 |title=Australian space spiders perish |work=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |agency=[[Australian Associated Press]] |url=https://www.smh.com.au/world/australian-space-spiders-perish-20030202-gdg7fh.html |url-status=live |access-date=September 2, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220212051629/https://www.smh.com.au/world/australian-space-spiders-perish-20030202-gdg7fh.html |archive-date=February 12, 2022 }}</ref>

===Major experiments===
[[File:STS107Launch NASA.gif|thumb|STS-107 ignition, launch and lift-off of ''Columbia''.]]
Examples of some of the experiments and investigations on the mission.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web |date=August 29, 2023 |editor-last=Michele |editor-first=Ostovar |title=STS-107 |url=https://www.nasa.gov/mission/sts-107/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231127185602/https://www.nasa.gov/mission/sts-107/ |archive-date=November 27, 2023 |access-date=February 15, 2023 |publisher=[[NASA]]}}</ref>

In SPACEHAB RDM:<ref name="auto1"/>
*9 commercial payloads with 21 investigations;
*4 payloads for the European Space Agency with 14 investigations;
*1 payload for ISS Risk Mitigation;
*18 payloads NASA's Office of Biological and Physical Research (OBPR) with 23 investigations.

In the payload bay attached to RDM:<ref name="auto1"/>
*Combined Two-Phase Loop Experiment (COM2PLEX);
*Miniature Satellite Threat Reporting System (MSTRS);
*Star Navigation (STARNAV).

[[Freestar experiment|FREESTAR]]<ref name="auto1"/>
*Critical Viscosity of Xenon-2 (CVX-2);
*Space Experiment Module (SEM-14);
*Mediterranean Israeli Dust Experiment (MEIDEX);
*Low Power Transceiver (LPT);
*Solar Constant Experiment-3 (SOLCON-3);
*Shuttle Ozone Limb Sounding Experiment (SOLSE-2);

Additional payloads<ref name="auto1"/>
*Shuttle Ionospheric Modification with Pulsed Local Exhaust Experiment (SIMPLEX);
*Ram Burn Observation (RAMBO).

Because much of the data was transmitted during the mission, there was still large return on the mission objectives even though ''Columbia'' was lost on re-entry. NASA estimated that 30% of the total science data was saved and collected through [[telemetry]] back to ground stations. Around 5-10% more data was saved and collected through recovering samples and hard drives intact on the ground after the [[Space Shuttle Columbia disaster|Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' disaster]], increasing the total data of saved experiments despite the disaster from 30% to 35-40%.{{r|auto1}}<ref name="science_gained">{{Cite web |last=John |first=Charles |last2=Liskowsky |first2=David |date=May 30, 2003 |title=STS-107 Whole Payload % Science Gained: Code U, ISS RME, SPACEHAB commercial, ESA, FREESTAR |url=http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/archives/sts-107/Science_Gained_05-30-03.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041113154041/http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/archives/sts-107/Science_Gained_05-30-03.pdf |archive-date=November 13, 2004 |access-date=December 5, 2020 }}</ref>

About five or six ''Columbia'' payloads encompassing many experiments were successfully recovered in the debris field. Scientists and engineers were able to recover 99% of the data for one of the six FREESTAR experiments, Critical Viscosity of Xenon-2 (CVX-2), that flew unpressurized in the payload bay during the mission after recovering the [[viscometer]] and hard drive damaged but fully intact in the debris field in Texas. NASA recovered a commercial payload, Commercial Instrumentation Technology Associates (ITA) Biomedical Experiments-2 (CIBX-2), and ITA was able to increase the total data saved from STS-107 from 0% to 50% for this payload. This experiment studied treatments for cancer, and the [[micro-encapsulation]] experiment part of the payload was completely recovered, increasing from 0% data to 90% data after recovering the samples fully intact for this experiment. In this same payload were numerous crystal-forming experiments by hundreds of elementary and middle school students from all across the United States. Miraculously most of their experiments were found intact in CIBX-2, increasing from 0% data to 100% fully recovered data. The BRIC-14 (moss growth experiment) and BRIC-60 (''[[Caenorhabditis elegans]]'' roundworm experiment) samples were found intact in the debris field within a {{convert|12|mi|km|adj=on}} radius in east Texas. 80-87% of these live organisms survived the catastrophe. The moss and roundworms experiments' original primary mission was not nominal due to the lack of having the samples immediately after landing in their original state (they were discovered many months after the crash), but these samples helped the scientific community greatly in the field of [[astrobiology]] and helped form new theories about microorganisms surviving a long trip in outer space while traveling on meteorites or asteroids.<ref name="aiaa-2004-285">{{Cite conference |last=Over |first=A. P. |last2=Cassanto |first2=J. M. |last3=Cassanto |first3=V. A. |last4=DeLucas |first4=L. J. |last5=Reichert |first5=P. |last6=Motil |first6=S. M. |last7=Reed |first7=D. W. |last8=Ahmay |first8=F. T. |date=January 2004 |title=STS-107 Mission after the Mission: Recovery of Data from the Debris of ''Columbia'' |url=https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20040111285/downloads/20040111285.pdf |conference=AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting |location=Reno, Nv. |publisher=[[American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics]] |volume=42 |id=2004-285 }}</ref>

===Re-entry===
{{main|Space Shuttle Columbia disaster|l1=Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' disaster|Columbia Accident Investigation Board|l2=''Columbia'' Accident Investigation Board}}
[[File:ColumbiaFLIR2003.png|thumb|left|FLIR imaging photograph of ''Columbia''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s disintegration captured by an [[Boeing AH-64 Apache|AH-64D Apache]]'s [[Forward-looking infrared|FLIR camera]] during training with RNLAF ([[Royal Netherlands Air Force]]) personnel out of Fort Hood, Texas.<ref name="aviationist-20140201">{{Cite news |last=Cenciotti |first=David |date=February 1, 2014 |title=Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster as seen through AH-64 Apache camera |work=The Aviationist |url=https://theaviationist.com/2014/02/01/sts-107-disaster-video/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230331125749/https://theaviationist.com/2014/02/01/sts-107-disaster-video/ |archive-date=March 31, 2023 }}</ref>]]
{{blockquote|KSC landing was planned for Feb. 1 after a 16-day mission, but ''Columbia'' and crew were lost during re-entry over East Texas at about 9 a.m. EST, 16 minutes prior to the scheduled touchdown at KSC. |NASA{{r|auto1}}}}
''Columbia'' began re-entry as planned, but the heat shield was compromised due to damage sustained during the ascent. The heat of re-entry was free to spread into the damaged portion of the orbiter, ultimately causing its disintegration and the death of all seven astronauts.

The accident triggered a 7-month investigation and a search for debris, and over 85,000 pieces were collected throughout the initial investigation.<ref name="auto1"/> This amounted to roughly 38 percent of the orbiter vehicle.<ref name="auto1"/>
{{Clear}}

==Insignia==
[[File:STS107ByPhilKonstantin.jpg|thumb|STS-107 Robbins Medallion]]
The mission insignia itself is the only patch of the shuttle program that is entirely shaped in the orbiter's outline. The central element of the patch is the [[microgravity]] symbol, ''μg'', flowing into the rays of the [[astronaut]] symbol.

The mission [[inclination]] is portrayed by the 39-degree angle of the astronaut symbol to the Earth's [[horizon]]. The sunrise is representative of the numerous experiments that are the dawn of a new era for continued microgravity research on the International Space Station and beyond. The breadth of science and the exploration of space is illustrated by the Earth and stars. The [[constellation]] [[Columba (constellation)|Columba]] (the [[dove]]) was chosen to symbolize [[peace]] on Earth and the Space Shuttle ''Columbia''. The seven stars also represent the mission crew members and honor the original astronauts who paved the way to make research in space possible. Six stars have five points, the seventh has six points like a [[Star of David]], symbolizing the Israeli Space Agency's contributions to the mission.

An [[Israel]]i [[Flag of Israel|flag]] is adjacent to the name of [[Ilan Ramon|Payload Specialist Ramon]], who was the first Israeli in space. The crew insignia or 'patch' design was initiated by crew members Dr. Laurel Clark and Dr. Kalpana Chawla.<ref name="spacepatches-sts-107">{{Cite web |date=January 16, 2003 |title=STS-107 |url=http://www.spacepatches.nl/sts_mis/sts107.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110521152317/http://www.spacepatches.nl/sts_mis/sts107.html |archive-date=May 21, 2011 |access-date=December 10, 2010 |website=Spacepatches.nl }}</ref> First-time crew member Clark provided most of the design concepts as Chawla led the design of her maiden voyage STS-87 insignia. Clark also pointed out that the dove in the Columba constellation was mythologically connected to the explorers [[Argonauts|the Argonauts]] who released the dove.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://coldwater.k12.mi.us/lms/planetarium/myth/columba.html |title=Constellation Columba |publisher=coldwater.k12.mi.us |access-date=September 2, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090123084901/http://coldwater.k12.mi.us/lms/planetarium/myth/columba.html |archive-date=January 23, 2009 }}</ref>

==Wake-up calls==
Throughout the shuttle program, sleeping astronauts were often awakened each morning by songs and short pieces of music chosen by their families, friends, and Mission Control, a tradition dating back to the Gemini and Apollo programs. While the crew of STS-107 worked shifts in "red" and "blue" teams to work around the clock, on this mission each shift was still awoken with a "wake-up call"; the only other two-shift shuttle mission to do so was [[STS-99]].<ref name="chronology">{{cite news |first=Colin |last=Fries |title=Chronology of Wakeup Calls |date=13 March 2015 |publisher=NASA History Division |url=https://history.nasa.gov/wakeup%20calls.pdf |access-date=22 January 2024 |archive-date=20 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231220093919/https://history.nasa.gov/wakeup%20calls.pdf |url-status=dead}}</ref>{{rp|4,44,52–53}}
{{sticky header}}
{| class="wikitable sticky-header"
! Day !! Team !! Song !! Artist/Performer !! Played for !! Link<ref>{{cite web |last1=Dismukes |first1=Kim |title=STS-107 Wake-up Calls |url=https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/html/ndxpage1.html |website=NASA Human Spaceflight |publisher=NASA |access-date=23 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/html/ndxpage1.html |archive-date=29 March 2015 |date=1 February 2003 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2" | 2 || Blue{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid blue.svg|8px]] || "E'mma" || Touré Kunda || David Brown || [https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd02blue.wav WAV] 
|-
|Red{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid red.svg|8px]] || "[[America, the Beautiful]]" || Texas Elementary Honors Choir{{efn| With Rick Husband's daughter Laura.<ref name ="chronology" />{{rp|52}}}} || Rick Husband || [https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd02red.wav WAV]
|-
| rowspan="2" | 3 || Blue{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid blue.svg|8px]]|| "[[Coming Back to Life]]" || [[Pink Floyd]]|| William McCool ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd03blue.wav WAV]
|-
|Red{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid red.svg|8px]] || "[[Space Truckin']]" || [[Deep Purple]] || Kalpana Chawla || [https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd03red.wav WAV]
|-
| rowspan="2" | 4 || Blue{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid blue.svg|8px]]|| "Cultural Exchange" || ''Not listed''|| David Brown ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd04blue.wav WAV]
|-
|Red{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid red.svg|8px]] || "Hatishma Koli" || [[The High Windows]] || Ilan Ramon || [https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd04red.wav WAV]
|-
| rowspan="2" | 5 || Blue{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid blue.svg|8px]]|| "[[Fake Plastic Trees]]"|| [[Radiohead]]|| William McCool ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd05blue.wav WAV]
|-
|Red{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid red.svg|8px]] || "[[Amazing Grace]]" || [[Black Watch]] and 51st Highland Brigade Band || Laurel Clark || [https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd05red.wav WAV]
|-
| rowspan="2" | 6 || Blue{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid blue.svg|8px]]|| "Texan 60" || ''Not listed''|| David Brown ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd06blue.wav WAV]
|-
|Red{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid red.svg|8px]] || "[[God of Wonders]]" || [[Steve Green (singer)|Steve Green]] || Rick Husband || [https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd06red.wav WAV]
|-
| rowspan="2" | 7 || Blue{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid blue.svg|8px]]|| "[[Wedding Song (There Is Love)|The Wedding Song]]" || [[Paul Stookey]]|| William McCool ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd07blue.wav WAV]
|-
|Red{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid red.svg|8px]] || "Prabhati" || [[Ravi Shankar]] || Kalpana Chawla || [https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd07red.wav WAV]
|-
| rowspan="2" | 8 || Blue{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid blue.svg|8px]]|| "[[Hakuna Matata (song)|Hakuna Matata]]" || [[The Baha Men]]|| Michael Anderson ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd08blue.wav WAV]
|-
|Red{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid red.svg|8px]] || "Ma ata oseh kesheata kam baboker?" || [[Arik Einstein]] || Ilan Ramon || [https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd08red.wav WAV]
|-
| rowspan="2" | 9 || Blue{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid blue.svg|8px]]|| "[[Burning Down The House]]" || [[Talking Heads]]|| ''To honor combustion experiments''||[https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd09blue.wav WAV]
|-
|Red{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid red.svg|8px]] || "[[Kung Fu Fighting]]" || [[Carl Douglas]] || ''Whole crew'' || [https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd09red.wav WAV]
|-
| rowspan="2" | 10 || Blue{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid blue.svg|8px]] || "[[Hotel California]]" || [[The Eagles]] / McCool Family{{efn| With Sean McCool on guitar, his then-girlfriend Josee as vocals, and her father Frank also on guitar.<ref name ="chronology" />{{rp|52}}}} || William McCool ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd10blue.wav WAV]
|-
|Red{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid red.svg|8px]] || "[[The Prayer (Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli song)|The Prayer]]" || [[Celine Dion]] || Rick Husband || [https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd10red.wav WAV]
|-
| rowspan="2" | 11 || Blue{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid blue.svg|8px]] || "[[I Say a Little Prayer]]" || [[Dionne Warwick]] || Michael Anderson ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd11blue.wav WAV]
|-
|Red{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid red.svg|8px]] || "[[Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)|Drops of Jupiter]]" || [[Train (band)|Train]] || Kalpana Chawla || [https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd11red.wav WAV]
|-
| rowspan="2" | 12 || Blue{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid blue.svg|8px]] || "When Day Is Done" || [[Django Reinhardt]] and [[Stephane Grappelli]] || David Brown ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd12blue.wav WAV]
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|Red{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid red.svg|8px]] || "[[Love of My Life (Queen song)|Love of My Life]]" || [[Queen (band)|Queen]] || Ilan Ramon || [https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd12red.wav WAV]
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| rowspan="2" | 13 || Blue{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid blue.svg|8px]] || "Slow Boat to Rio" || [[Earl Klugh]] || Michael Anderson ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd13blue.wav WAV]
|-
|Red{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid red.svg|8px]] || "Running to the Light" || [[Runrig]] || Laurel Clark || [https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd13red.wav WAV]
|-
| rowspan="2" | 14 || Blue{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid blue.svg|8px]] || "[[I Get Around]]" || [[The Beach Boys]] || David Brown ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd14blue.wav WAV]
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|Red{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid red.svg|8px]] || "[[Up on the Roof (song)#Other recordings|Up On the Roof]]" || [[James Taylor]] || Rick Husband || [https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd14red.wav WAV]
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| rowspan="2" | 15 || Blue{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid blue.svg|8px]] || "[[Imagine (John Lennon song)|Imagine]]" || [[John Lennon]] || William McCool ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd15blue.wav WAV]
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|Red{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid red.svg|8px]] || "Yaar ko hamne ja ba ja dekha" || Abita Parveen || Kalpana Chawla || [https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd15red.wav WAV]
|-
| rowspan="2" | 16 || Blue{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid blue.svg|8px]] || "[[A Day Without Rain#Track listing|Silver Inches]]" || [[Enya]] || David Brown ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd16blue.wav WAV]
|-
|Red{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid red.svg|8px]] || "Shalom lach eretz nehederet"{{efn| In the tune of [[City of New Orleans (song)#Arlo Guthrie version|Arlo Guthrie's "City of New Orleans"]].<ref name ="chronology" />{{rp|53}}}} || [[Yehoram Gaon]] || Ilan Ramon || [https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd16red.wav WAV]
|-
| rowspan="2" | 17 || Blue{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid blue.svg|8px]] || "If You've Been Delivered" || [[Kirk Franklin]] || Michael Anderson ||[https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd17blue.wav WAV]
|-
|Red{{Nbsp}}[[Image:Solid red.svg|8px]] || "[[Scotland the Brave]]" || [[Black Watch|The Black Watch]] and 51st Highland Brigade Band || Laurel Clark || [https://web.archive.org/web/20150329220655/https://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/audio/shuttle/sts-107/wave/fd17red.wav WAV]
|}

==Gallery==
<gallery>
STS-107, Space Shuttle Columbia launch.ogg|Launch video.
Close-up STS-107 Launch - GPN-2003-00080.jpg|Launch of STS-107 from Launch Pad 39A at Kennedy Space Center.
STS-107-sleeping-crew.jpg|Mission STS-107 crew in bunk beds on the middeck of the Space Shuttle.
STS-107 Cockpit Video 3.jpg|Reentry video frame.
STS107-E-5311.JPG|View of the atmosphere and of the Moon.
Mount Fuji from space (shuttle mission).jpg|A view of [[Mount Fuji]] and the surrounding area from ''Columbia''
Columbia's Main Engine Powerheads - GPN-2003-00076.jpg|Part of one of ''Columbia''{{'}}s main engines later recovered.
</gallery>

==See also==
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*[[List of Space Shuttle missions]]
*[[Outline of space science]]

== Notes ==
{{notelist}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Include-NASA}}

==Literature==
*{{Cite book |editor-link1=William H. Starbuck |editor-first1=William H. |editor-last1=Starbuck |editor-first2=Moshe |editor-last2=Farjoun |title=Organization at the Limit: Lessons from the Columbia Disaster |publisher=[[Wiley-Blackwell|Blackwell]] |location=Malden |year=2005 |ISBN=140513108X}}

==External links==
{{Commons|STS-107}}
*[http://www.nasa.gov/columbia/home/index.html NASA's Space Shuttle ''Columbia'' and Her Crew]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20041031063504/http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/shuttle/archives/sts-107/memorial/index.html NASA STS-107 Crew Memorial web page]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20030207085312/http://spaceresearch.nasa.gov/sts-107/index.html NASA's STS-107 Space Research Web Site]
*[http://spaceflightnow.com/shuttle/sts107/status.html Spaceflight Now: STS-107 Mission Report]
*{{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070423110513/http://microgravity.grc.nasa.gov/combustion/web/sts107_reports.htm |date=April 23, 2007 |title=Science Reports }}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20030216042332/http://www.shuttlepresskit.com/STS-107/index.htm Press Kit]
*[http://www.nasa.gov/missions/shuttle/experiment.html Article describing experiments which survived the disaster]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20050403105649/http://racine.wi.net/clark.php3 Article: Astronaut Laurel Clark from Racine, WI]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20030201125403/http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/spacenews/reports/sts-107/index.html Status reports] Detailed [[NASA]] status reports for each day of the mission.

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