Feb 13 2003
From The Space Library
NASA announced that it had positively identified the remains of all seven members of STS-107 at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware, and that officials in Angelina County, Texas, had signed the death certificates. Eileen Hawley, spokesperson for NASA's JSC in Houston, said that officials had released the crew members' remains to their families for private memorial services.
NASA had already returned the remains of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon to Israel, where burial services had taken place on 11 February. (NASA JSC, “Columbia Astronaut Remains Identified,” news release H03-070, 13 February 2003, http://www.nasa.gov/centers/johnson/news/releases/2003/h03-070.html (accessed 14 August 2008); Associated Press, “Remains of All Shuttle Astronauts Identified,” 14 February 2003.
NASA issued a statement on behalf of the CAIB announcing that preliminary analysis performed by a NASA working group indicated that the temperature level in Columbia's left wheel well during reentry indicated the presence of plasma. Heat transfer related to a missing tile in the structure would not have been sufficient to elevate the temperature to the level revealed in the preliminary analysis.(NASA, “Statement by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board,” news release 03-072, 13 February 2003, http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2003/feb/HP_news_03072.html (accessed 16 July 2008).
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