United States Space Shuttle Columbia

The crew of United States Space Shuttle Columbia on STS 107 included David Brown, Laurel Blair Salton Clark, Kalpana Chawla, Michael P. Anderson, Ilan Ramon, Rick D. Husband, and William C. McCool, and they are remembered on 1 February 2003. STS-107 was a multidisciplinary microgravity and earth science mission conducted aboard the space shuttle Columbia during a sixteen day mission in January 2003. The crew emblem expressed this with the symbol microgram flowing into the three rays of the astronaut star, shown at an angle of thirty-nine degrees to the earth's horizon to match the tilt of Columbia's actual orbit. A star field at the left represented the constellation of Columbia, the dove, symbolizing both peace on Earth and the shuttle Columbia. The seven stars also represented the mission crew members and honored the original astronauts who paved the way for research in space, and the crew members' names appeared around the periphery of the emblem.

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