Columbia's 28th and final flight carried a seven-member crew, including Israel's first astronaut Ilan Ramon, on a 16-day microgravity research mission; the orbiter disintegrated on reentry February 1 after wing damage from launch debris, killing all aboard.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 14.3 T
- Flight
- 113th
- of 135 Space Shuttle flights
- Date and time
- 16 January 2003, 15:39 UTC
- Rocket
- Space Shuttle
- Builder
- Rockwell / Martin Marietta / Thiokol
- Launch site
- Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA
- Payload
- Human Exploration
- International designator
- 2003-003
- Launches in 2003
- 3rd of 63
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