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Columbia Space Shuttle
Shuttle recovered debris
Recovery Efforts in the aftermath

Origin

NASA Space Shuttle Program

Type

Space Shuttle

Effects

Radiates superheated plasma

Downsides

Splinters apart mechanisms

Activation

Air Differential

Collected by

Warehouse 13

Section

Ford-1908

Aisle

Wright-1903

[Source]


Origin[]

April 1981 – the first shuttle to enter orbit. Twenty-two years of service spread out over 27 missions. Much of the work oversaw experiments, shipping equipment for space laboratories.

February 1, 2003 – Space Shuttle ‘’Columbia’’ disintegrated and killed the seven crew abroad. Insulation foam in the fuel tank broke off during reentry, rattled within the wing section and punctured a hole for superheated gas to enter. Engineers had encountered the problem on previous flights, but decided it would not be addressed by the crew if brought up.

Reports indicated the crew would have suffered loss of consciousness, separation from the seats and blunt force trauma from the helmets before impact. Debris was strewn across Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas after the disaster. Programming was suspended for two years while NASA revised safety protocols.

The flight crew included: Commander Rick D. Husband, U.S. Air Force colonel ; Pilot William C. McCool, U.S. Navy commander; Payload commander Michael P. Anderson, U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel; Payload specialist Ilan Ramon, Israeli Air Force; Mission specialist Kalpana Chawla, aerospace engineer ; Mission specialist David M. Brown, U.S. Navy captain and Mission specialist Laurel Blair Salton Clark, U.S. Navy captain.

Effects[]

Exerting a strong wave of air pressure movement around pieces will superheat the surrounding air into plasma state. It is hot enough to power experimental generators or burn through high-strength alloys. Any object the pieces contact without heating will quickly shatter into hundreds of irreparable pieces.

Storage[]

Imbued by the final tragic mission, these pieces constitute around 44% of the remaining shuttle (many more pieces were acquired discretely from private collections and the black market). Due to further wreckage still being found, and the large size of the shuttle, they are all stored together in a shipping container. They remain relatively calm when in large groups and away from air currents.

Astronomy Artifacts
Astronomers Clyde W. Tombaugh's Photographic PlatesEdmond Halley's TelescopeErnst Chladni's PlateFritz Zwicky’s Meteor PelletsGalileo Galilei's AstrolabeHeinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers’ TelescopeJohannes Hevelius' QuadrantJohannes Kepler's Telescope LenseJohn Flamsteed's Star CatalogueKazimierz Kordylewski’s TelescopeLuis Alvarez's Iridium ChunkNicolaus Copernicus' Armillary SphereTycho Brahe's Prosthetic NosesVera Rubin's ProtractorWilliam Wales' Portable Observatory
Exploration Missions American Apollo 11 Lunar Landing Hoax SetApollo 13 Command ModuleApollo 15 Geologic Hammer and Falcon FeatherChris Hadfield's Acoustic GuitarColumbia Space ShuttleNavigational Software from the Mars Climate OrbiterPete Conrad's Space BootsRichard F. Gordon Jr's Spacesuit HelmetSaturn VThe Fourth AstronautWally Schirra’s Insignia PatchesWilliam Safire’s Apollo 11 Speech
Soviet / Russian Alexey Leonov's "Near the Moon"Laika's HarnessSputnik's AntennaUSSR Space CapsuleValentin Bondarenko's Cotton BallsValeri Polyakov's Blood Pressure CuffVladislav Volkov’s SpacesuitYuri Gagarin's Hockey PuckYuri Gagarin's SpacesuitYuri Gagarin's Lieutenant Pin
Other Edward Makuka Nkoloso’s Oil DrumMatroshka Experiments Mannequin
Natural Phenomenon Samples Chunk of the Chelyabinsk MeteorExplosive Meteor FragmentNWA 7034Piece of Halley's CometStar Jelly
Solar Prominence Donald Liebenberg's Eclipse GlassesÉvry Schatzman's TelescopeJohannes Fabricius' Camera ObscuraObelisk from St. Peter's BasilicaRa's ScepterRa's Solar Barge
Lunar Activity Chang'e's BuyaoJean Chastel's Silver GunLi Bai’s Rosewood Wall PanelsPrincess Kaguya’s Bamboo SwordSelene's TiaraTobias Mayer's Reflecting CircleWang Zhenyi's Lunar Eclipse
Exotic Physics Fred Hoyle’s Rubik's CubeGeorge Biddell Airy's Transit InstrumentHermann Weyl's Drafting CompassHolmdel Horn AntennaJames Chadwick's Nobel PrizeJocelyn Bell Burnell's Chart RecorderJohannes Kepler's Planetary ModelJohn Archibald Wheeler’s Newton CradleKarl Schwarzchild's Pocket WatchLouis Essen's Alarm Clock
Extraterrestrial Life Purported Sightings Heaven's Gate HomepageJ. Allen Hynek's TelescopeWilliam Brazel's Cowboy Hat
Fictional Encounters Bolaji Badejo's BeretCybermen OutfitsDalek CostumesFox Mulder's 'I Want To Believe' PosterGarrett P. Serviss' Prop Martian GunGeorge Lucas' Original Prop LightsaberH. R. Giger's Mechanical PencilHAL 9000 PropOmnitrix ToyOrson Welles' MicrophoneRichard O'Brien's StockingsU.S. Air Force Space Probe No. 1Zathura
Miscellaneous Bill Kaysing's FeatherCarl Sagan's JacketCharles Fort’s Newspaper ClippingsConrad Haas’ NozzleHuitzilopochtli's Sacrificial BowlJack Parson's Rocket EngineLance Bass' Cargo ContainerMaria Margaretha Kirch's EphemerisPiece of the Antikythera MechanismQian Xuesen's Servomechanism


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