page_title: Spaceworthiness
hierarchical_section_title: Spaceworthiness
caption_attribution_description: English: A close-up camera view shows Space Shuttle Columbia as it lifts off from Launch Pad 39A on mission STS-107. Launch occurred on schedule on 16th of January, 2003 at 10:39 EST (15:39 UTC).
context_page_description: Spaceworthiness, or aerospaceworthiness, is a property, or ability of a spacecraft to perform to its design objectives and navigate successfully through both the space environment and the atmosphere as a part of a journey to or from space.
  As in airworthiness, the spaceworthiness of a spacecraft depends on at least three basic components:
  design of the spacecraft, which covers activities of engineering evaluation, simulations, laboratory and prototype tests, and experimental flights;
  production, which seeks to ensure that the spacecraft has been assembled in conformity with the design specification;
  maintenance of the spacecraft, after production, before and during each flight mission.
  Spaceworthiness is typically maintained through a maintenance program and / or a system of analysis, diagnosis and management of health and reliability of the spacecraft.
context_section_description: Spaceworthiness, or aerospaceworthiness, is a property, or ability of a spacecraft to perform to its design objectives and navigate successfully through both the space environment and the atmosphere as a part of a journey to or from space.
  As in airworthiness, the spaceworthiness of a spacecraft depends on at least three basic components:
  design of the spacecraft, which covers activities of engineering evaluation, simulations, laboratory and prototype tests, and experimental flights;
  production, which seeks to ensure that the spacecraft has been assembled in conformity with the design specification;
  maintenance of the spacecraft, after production, before and during each flight mission.
  Spaceworthiness is typically maintained through a maintenance program and / or a system of analysis, diagnosis and management of health and reliability of the spacecraft.
caption: Space Shuttle Columbia, thought to be spaceworthy despite damage incurred during this liftoff, was destroyed by it upon re-entry.
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