Space Safety Magazine logo
  • Press Clips
  • Spaceflight
  • Engineering
  • Debris
  • Space Disasters
  • Space on Earth
  • Exploration
  • Space Hazards
  • Press Clips
  • Spaceflight
  • Engineering
  • Debris
  • Space Disasters
  • Space on Earth
  • Exploration
  • Space Hazards

SGAC-logo-main-RGB-2000px

Inside Reentry, Descent and Landing

  • Expedition 43 Commander Terry Virts of NASA, Flight Engineers Anton Shkaplerov of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA (European Space Agency) touched down at 9:44 a.m. EDT (7:44 p.m., Kazakh time), southeast of the remote town of Dzhezkazgan in Kazakhstan. Credits: NASA TVExpedition 43 Crew Departs Space Station, Lands Safely in Kazakhstan
  • This montage of three frames shows the Soyuz TMA-17 spacecraft as it lands with Expedition 23 Commander Oleg Kotov and Flight Engineers T.J. Creamer and Soichi Noguchi near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Wednesday, June 2, 2010. NASA Astronaut Creamer, Russian Cosmonaut Kotov and Japanese Astronaut Noguchi are returning from six months onboard the International Space Station where they served as members of the Expedition 22 and 23 crews. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)Soft landing on “Kaktus”
  • ESA's Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle Reentry Test
  • ESA's IXV Successfully Completes Milestone Test
  • Rescuing Orion After Off-Nominal Landing
  • Rotors for Safe Reentry of Future NASA Capsules
  • ESA Develops a New Lidar Sensor for Planetary Landing
  • Xombie Success Paves the Way for Realistic On-Earth Testing
  • Woven Thermal Protective System "Game Changing" for Heat Shields
  • Landing Curiosity
Satflare-logo

Browse The Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster

  • Evidence of foam loss preceding the disastrous Shuttle Columbia reentry (Credits: NASA)How We Nearly Lost Discovery: Returning to Flight After Columbia
  • Remembering Columbia
  • Learning from Columbia
  • Remnants of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, stored in the RLV hangar at Kennedy Space Center (Credits: NASA).Organizational Factors of the Columbia Disaster
  • The Columbia Disaster and Space Program Safety
  • Columbia And The Day of Remembrance
  • Sixteen Minutes from Home
  • STS-107: Columbia's Lost Crew
  • Columbia debris reconstructionTimeline of the Columbia Disaster
  • Columbia Disaster Recommended Reading
  • Sacriflight by Lloyd Behrendt, commemorates Columbia's last launchColumbia Disaster Creative Works
  • The Columbia Disaster In Perspective
  • A trajectory analysis that used a computational fluid dynamics approach to determine the likely position and velocity histories of the foam (Credits: NASA Ref [1] p61).Cause and Consequences of the Columbia Disaster
  • According to CAIB, destruction of the crew module took place over a period of 24 seconds, beginning at an altitude of approximately 42,672m and ending at 32,000m (Credits: NASA).Lessons Learned from the Columbia Disaster
  • Columbia streaking over the Very Large Array radio telescope in Socorro, New Mexico (Credits: NASA).Impact of Columbia Disaster on US Aviation Safety
  • Columbia debris reconstructionLiving with Columbia: Interview with Mike Cianilli
  • Remembering the Columbia Crew, One Day at a Time
  • About
  • Archive
  • Privacy Policy
  • Site Map
Copyright Space Safety Magazine 2020
We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy with it.Ok