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See also:
- Society: History: By Topic: Disasters: Space Accidents (7)
- Columbia Accident Investigation Board  - Features official press releases, events, and other information regarding the ongoing investigation.
- Accident FAQ - An updated collection of answers to common questions about the flight. Collected by a group of interested.
- BBC News: Space Shuttle Lost: Your Reaction - User submitted comments about, and reactions to, the incident.
- BBC: Shuttle Disaster - Features a BBC 'in-depth' series of articles on the accident. Updated regularly.
- Guardian: Space Shuttle Columbia - Continuing in-depth coverage, including story archive, interactive guide, weblog and related links.
- Instructions for Uploading Images and Video Related to the Columbia Accident - NASA site for collecting private images that might help in the investigation.
- NASA/Columbia music video essay by Chris Valentine - A music video essay dealing with the Columbia/STS-107 disaster and NASA's past and future purpose. Produced by Chris Valentine
- Notes on Columbia Loss - Provides a collection of technical documents [pdf] on the aerothermodynamics, and tile loss. Study notes collected by Perdue University.
- Seattle Post: Shuttle Disaster - Includes a series of special report articles with overview of the accident and crew background.
- Space Shuttle Columbia and Her Crew - Updated NASA information on the accident and results of the on-going inquiries.
- STS-107 Mission Status Center - NASA report from Spaceflight Now.
- STS-107 Mission Status Reports - Official reports from Mission Control Center, Houston, Texas. Covers the mission from liftoff to the aftermath of the accident.
- Times of India: Columbia Crash - Offers news and commentary. Includes photo gallery, graphics, and user tributes to Kalpana Chawla.
- Analysis: NASA Emergency - "Science editor Dr. David Whitehouse outlines what we know so far about the shuttle emergency." [BBC News] (February 1, 2003)
- Fox News: Timeline of Columbia's Last Mission - Highlights from liftoff on January 16 to breakup over Texas on February 1. (February 1, 2003)
- National Geographic: Shuttle Columbia Lost Upon Re-entry - Summary of mission and initial loss. Includes photograph of crew. (February 1, 2003)
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| Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster on Feb. 1, 2003 |
On this day, thousands of people gathered in a few EF-Net IRC channels to communicate with the world about a major event. EF-Net is the first and still one of the largest IRC networks in the world, as in the past, channel #news quickly became a mass of users working together to report live information and help however they can. In the past events like disaster, war (in the Gulf War), and those like Lady Diana's fatal accident, have caused people to get live news in masses and REALLY communicate globally in chat, often when news websites or services are bogged-down or dead because of the sudden traffic increase. This global medium and channels like #news continue to be a valuable service. This day's events brought us users sharingtheir high bandwidth to share video and media covering the event.
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