Commander Rick Husband, pilot William McCool, mission specialists Michael Anderson, David Brown, Kalpana Chawla and Laurel Clark, and payload specialist Ilan Ramon, died #OnThisDay in 2003 in the Columbia disaster.
On February 1, 2003, the world witnessed a somber chapter in the history of space exploration, the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster. Seven brave astronauts tragically lost their lives as the spacecraft disintegrated upon re-entering Earth's atmosphere. 1/n