24: Columbia

In 2003 the Space Shuttle Columbia launched successfully but after its mission was completed burned up on re-entry with the loss of all onboard. We look at how normalisation of deviation blinded many at NASA to a risk that had existed since 1981.
With John Chidgey.

Links of potential interest:

• Space Shuttle Columbia


• Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster


• STS-107


• When The Space Shuttle Didn’t Come Home


• Columbia Space Shuttle Disaster Explained


• List of Space Shuttle Missions


• A New Vision for NASA


• STS-27


• Legendary Commander Tells Story Of Shuttle’s Close Call


• This Is Why The Space Shuttle’s External Fuel Tank Stopped Being Painted White


• NASA - Report of Columbia Accident Investigation Board, Volume I


• Soyuz


• Project Gemini

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Episode Gold Producer:
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Episode Silver Producers:
Carsten Hansen and John Whitlow.