The Space Shuttle Missions

(Second Space Flight)

(First Space Flight) Mission Specialist 1:

(First Space Flight) Mission Specialist 2:

(Second Space Flight) Flight Engineer
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(Second Space Flight) Mission Specialist 4:

(First Space Flight) Payload Specialist 1:

(First Space Flight)

STS-107 carried the SPACEHAB Double Research Module on its inaugural flight, the Freestar experiment (mounted on a Hitchiker Programme rack), and the Extended Duration Orbiter pallet. SPACEHAB was first flown on STS 57.

One of the experiments, a video taken to study atmospheric dust, may have detected a new atmospheric phenomenon, dubbed a "TIGER" (Transient Ionospheric Glow Emission in Red).

On board the Columbia was a copy of a drawing by Petr Ginz, the editor-in-chief of the magazine Vedem, who depicted what he imagined the Earth looked like from the Moon when he was a 14-year-old prisoner in the Terezin concentration camp. The copy was in the possession of IIan Ramon and was lost in the crash. IIan Ramon also travelled with a dollar bill received from the Lubavitcher Rebbe.

An Australian experiment, conducted by students from Glen Waverley Secondary College, was designed to test the reaction of zero gravity on the web formation of the Garden Orb Spider.