Space Shuttle - NASA

This footage is from NASA’s STS-75 mission aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia in February 1996. This was the “Tether Incident” involving the Tethered Satellite System (TSS-1R) experiment, a joint NASA/Italian Space Agency effort. After the tether broke, the crew used onboard cameras (including a low-light or special video camera, often described as sensitive to certain wavelengths) to film the drifting satellite and tether for documentation and analysis. In the video:• The long, straight white li

Day in space on Instagram: "February 1, 2003 Columbia disaster (STS-107). The shuttle was destroyed during its return to Earth, killing all seven crew members. The cause was damage to the left wing heat shield during launch on January 16. Read more. This was the 113th flight of the Space Shuttle program, Columbia's 28th, and the second disaster after Challenger in January 1986. Ad astra per aspera #columbiadisaster #sts107 #adastraperaspera"