The STS-107 crew
The STS-107 crew (from left to right): David Brown, Rick Husband, Laurel Clark, Kalpana Chawla, Michael Anderson, William “Willie” McCool, and Ilan Ramon, the latter from the Israeli Space Agency. STS-107 was the first Shuttle mission of 2003 and Columbia’s 28th overall. Columbia, the oldest Shuttle in the fleet at the time, was also the first Shuttle to reach space, having done so on April 12, 1981. The STS-107 mission launched from Launch Pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January, 16, 2003.
