(Second Space Flight)

(First Space Flight) Mission Specialist 1:

(Second Space Flight) Mission Specialist 2:

(Second Space Flight) Flight Engineer

Michael P.Anderson USAF

(First Space Flight) Mission Specialist 4:

(First Space Flight) Payload Specialist 1:

(First Space Flight)

Mission Specialist 4: Salizhan Sharipov, RKA (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.

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The Space Shuttle Missions

FREESTAR
Critical Viscosity of Xenon- 2 (CVX-2)
Low Power Transceiver (LPT)
Mediterranean Israeli Dust Experiment (MEIDEX)
Space Experiment Module (SEM- 14)
Solar Constant Experiment-3 (SOLCON-3)
Shuttle Ozone Limb Sounding Experiment (SOLSE-2)
Additional payloads
Shuttle Ionospheric Modification with Pulsed Local Exhaust Experiment (SIMPLEX)
Ram Burn Observation (RAMBO).

Because much of the data was transmitted during the mission, there was still large return on the mission objectives even though it was lost on re-entry. NASA estimated that 30% of the total science data was saved and collected through telemetry back to ground stations. Around 5-10% more data was saved and collected through recovering samples and hard drives intact on the ground after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, increasing the total data of saved experiments despite the disaster from 30% to 35-40%.

About 5-6 Columbia payloads encompassing many experiments were successfully recovered in the debris field. Scientists and engineers were able to recover 99% of the data for one of the six FREESTAR experiments, Critical Viscosity of Xenon-2 (CVX-2), that flew unpressurized in the payload bay during the mission after recovering the viscometer and hard drive damaged but fully intact in the debris field in Texas. NASA recovered a commercial payload, Commercial Instrumentation Technology Associates (ITA) Biomedical Experiments-2 (CIBX-2), and ITA was able to increase the total data saved from STS-107 from 0% to 50% for this payload. This experiment studied treatments for cancer, and the micro-encapsulation experiment part of the payload was completely recovered, increasing from 0% data to 90% data after recovering the samples fully intact for this experiment. In this same payload were numerous crystal-forming experiments by hundreds of elementary and middle school students from all across the United States. Miraculously most of their experiments were found intact in CIBX-2, increasing from 0% data to 100% fully recovered data. The BRIC-14 (moss growth experiment) and BRIC-60 (Caenorhabditis elegans ringworm experiment) samples were found intact in the debris field within a 12 mile radius in east Texas. 80-87% of these live organisms survived the catastrophe. The moss and ringworms experiments' original primary mission was not nominal due to the lack of having the samples immediately after landing in its original state (they were discovered many months after the crash), but these samples helped the scientific community greatly in the field of astrobiology and helped form new theories about microorganisms surviving a long trip in outer space while traveling on meteorites or asteroids.

Major Experiments
9 commercial payloads with 21 investigations,
4 payloads for the European Space Agency with 14 investigations
1 payload for ISS Risk Mitigation
18 payloads NASA's Office of Biological and Physical Research (OBPR) with 23 investigations
In the payload bay attached to RDM:
Combined Two-Phase Loop Experiment (COM2PLEX),
Miniature Satellite Threat Reporting System (MSTRS)
Star Navigation (STARNAV).