Columbia

Columbia Mission Log

28 times Columbia thundered into space.
27 times Columbia returned safely to Earth.

General information about Columbia

Columbia (OV-102)
History of the Columbia orbiter. KSC History Office.
Memorial Page for Space Shuttle Columbia, OV-102
Pictures of Columbia at Edwards Air Force Base, various missions, from the Goleta (California) Air & Space Museum.
Mission Launch date NASA Additional links
STS-1 04/12/81 KSC/SSL KSC/chron JSC
The Flight of STS-1
NASA History Office
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STS-2 11/12/81 KSC/SSL KSC/chron
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STS-3 03/22/82 KSC/SSL KSC/chron
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STS-4 06/27/82 KSC/SSL KSC/chron
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STS-5 11/11/82 KSC/SSL KSC/chron
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STS-9 11/28/83 KSC/SSL KSC/chron
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STS-61-C 01/12/86 KSC/SSL KSC/chron
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STS-28 08/08/89 KSC/SSL KSC/chron
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STS-32 01/09/90 KSC/SSL KSC/chron
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Long Duration Exposure Facility (LDEF)
STS-35 12/02/90 KSC/SSL KSC/chron
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STS-40 06/05/91 KSC/SSL KSC/chron
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STS-50 06/25/92 KSC/SSL KSC/chron
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STS-52 10/22/92 KSC/SSL KSC/chron
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STS-55 04/26/93 KSC/SSL KSC/chron
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STS-58 10/18/93 KSC/SSL KSC/chron
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STS-62 3/4/94 KSC/SSL KSC/chron
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STS-65 7/8/94 KSC/SSL KSC/chron
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To OMDP (Palmdale) 10/8/94 KSC Press Release 113-94
STS-73 10/20/95 KSC/SSL KSC/chron
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STS-75 2/22/96 KSC/SSL KSC/chron
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STS-78 6/20/96 KSC/SSL KSC/chron
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STS-80 11/19/96 KSC/SSL KSC/chron
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ORFEUS-SPAS-2/Wake Shield Facility-3 KSC Release No. 124-96
STS-83 04/04/97 KSC/SSL KSC/chron
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STS-94 07/01/97 KSC/SSL KSC/chron
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STS-87 11/19/97 KSC/SSL KSC/chron
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STS-90 4/13/98 KSC/SSL KSC/chron
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STS-93 7/23/99 KSC/SSL KSC/chron JSC
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Launch video
Tense moments due to fuel cell and electrical problems during launch.
Raoul Lannoy meeting the crew
To OMDP (Palmdale) 9/23/99 KSC Press Release 74-99
STS-109 3/1/02 KSC/SSL JSC
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STS-107 1/16/03 KSC/SSL
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Notes

Up until 2002, two groups at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) maintained their own pages for each mission. KSC/SSL is a plain but information-dense format called NASA Space Shuttle Launches. KSC/chron is a slicker-format summary of each mission, part of the Space Shuttle Mission Chronology.

JSC refers to material at spaceflight.nasa.gov, which is maintained by the Johnson Space Center.

astronautix refers to material at Mark Wade's Encyclopedia Astronautica

 

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