COLLECTION NAME:
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Collection
Record
Name of Image:
Sunrise in Space
Full Description:
This sunrise was captured from the crew cabin of the Space Shuttle Orbiter Columbia on the STS-107 mission. Launched January 16, 2003, STS-107 was strictly a multidiscipline microgravity and Earth science research mission involving 80-plus International experiments performed during 16-days, many of which were managed by the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The majority of the research was conducted in the Shuttle's mid deck, the area directly under the cockpit, in the new SPACEHAB Research Double Module. This was the first flight for that module, which doubled the volume available for experiments and significantly increased the amount and complexity of research from the last dedicated Shuttle science mission, STS-95, flown in 1998 with a single SPACEHAB module. The pressurized module was carried in Columbia's payload bay and was accessible to the crew via a turnel from the Shuttle's mid deck.
Date of Image:
2003-01-22
Category:
Space Shuttle Projects
term:
Columbia
facet_what:
Columbia
facet_where:
Alabama
facet_when:
1998
facet_when_year:
1998
Reference Number:
MSFC-75-SA-4105-2C
MIX #:
0301002
NIX #:
MSFC-0301002
MSFC Negative Number:
0301002
UID:
SPD-MARSH-0301002
