Talk:Space Shuttle Columbia

message: If Space Shuttle Buran doesn't relate to Columbia, then how does
* Space Shuttle Challenger
* Space Shuttle Enterprise
* Space Shuttle Discovery
* Space Shuttle Atlantis
* Space Shuttle Endeavour
The only difference is the above are American, and the Buran was Soviet. It is not like there are 30 countries building space shuttles. There have only been a handful of shuttles sent into space by humans, and the Buran is one of them. To discount the Buran because it isn't NASA's, is being America-centric.
:I've added Buran to the Space Shuttle template. The problem now is that the header in the template redirects to the NASA Space Shuttle program. A general definition on space shuttles should be in that page.--Andylkl 12:40, 11 Nov 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Space Shuttle Buran

message: Kalpana Chawla was not the first astronaut of Indian birth. The first was Rakesh Sharma who went into space in 1984. This fact is mentioned in wiki's Kalpana Chawla page.
Jay 00:36, 11 Aug 2003 (UTC)
thread_title: Rakesh Sharma

message: I think it's time to integrate Space Shuttle Columbia disaster and Space Shuttle Columbia into a single article.  There is a lack of parallelism between the way the Columbia and Challenger articles are handled and I see no reason the disaster info can't be included in the main article (with a redirect at the disaster article so nobody is dead-ended).  I plan to do this soon if no major objections arise.  Jgm 15:13, 18 Nov 2003 (UTC)
replies: text: I very strongly disagree and am surprised I haven't seen your message until now. Having over two thirds of this article about one aspect of Columbia - her death - would unbalance this article. The summary here is a good overview of the event. --mav 23:46, 12 Jan 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Response to this at Talk:Space Shuttle Columbia disaster.  Jgm 02:12, 13 Jan 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Integrating articles

message: The shuttle was was named after Columbia University b/c scientist at the university were the ones to invented the ceramic tiles that protected the shuttle from the heat of entering/exiting orbit.
:The above anonymous statement was written with someone with a particular interest in Columbia University, judging from the edit history.  As a son of Right Stuff parents who worked for Rockwell, the company who manufactured the Space Shuttles here in Palmdale, I can tell you the above statement is patent nonsense.  The naming of the Columbia was to represent the United States as a whole, and "Columbia" is often used to represent the United States in manufactured things.   It's derived from the name of Christopher Columbus, explorer of the New World called the Americas - not Columbia University, which also is named after Columbus.  Unlike our anon friend above, I'm willing to sign and datestamp my contribution here.  --avnative 02:36, Aug 21, 2004 (UTC)
:Actually, in reading the article, the Robert Gray sloop Columbia story is entirely plausible, but the Columbia University story is patent nonsense.  Gray's sloop most likely was named after the explorer Columbus.  Still would like a cite one way or the other.  --avnative 02:42, Aug 21, 2004 (UTC)
:: See the external links - specifically, this one from a NASA site:
::Columbia, the oldest orbiter in the Shuttle fleet, is named after the Boston, Massachusetts based sloop captained by American Robert Gray.
:: -- ALoan (Talk) 09:49, 31 Aug 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: why the shuttle is named "Columbia"

message: I changed the picture of Columbia landing (in the history section) at the end of STS-73 to that of Columbia landing at the end of STS-1. The pictures are about the same quality but the historical significance of STS-1 seems greater than STS-73. It would seem, especially in the history section, that this image is a better fit. Triddle 02:49, 27 Feb 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Changed the picture

message: Space shuttleft columbia 106.200.187.169 (talk) 02:19, 8 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Space shuttle columbia 

message: The original patch has finally been unveiled, approved by NASA just one day before we lost Columbia. needs to be added to the article. The designer of many of the mission patches talked about it in this thread. 
http://www.collectspace.com/ubb/Forum18/HTML/000409.html 2600:1700:AB0:4210:84D:35F0:B3F2:C6FE (talk) 02:38, 10 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  STS-118 mission patch with Columbia