Michael Phillip Anderson was a United States Air Force officer and NASA astronaut. He and his six fellow crew members were killed in the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster when the craft disintegrated during its re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. Anderson served as the payload commander and lieutenant colonel in charge of science experiments on the Columbia . He was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor.
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1959 — 2003
Wikimedia , Wikidata Michael Phillip Andersonastronaut, physicist, military officer, aircraft pilot,
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STS-107 ⓘ final flight of Space Shuttle Columbia
STS-89 ⓘ human spaceflight
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2003-02-01T00:00:00Z
1959 — 2003 Michael P. Anderson
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class orbit STS-107 David M. Brown, Ilan Ramon, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark, Michael P. Anderson, Rick Husband, William C. McCool, human spaceflight, Wikidata class orbit STS-89 Andy Thomas, Bonnie J. Dunbar, David Wolf, James F. Reilly, Joe F. Edwards, Michael P. Anderson, Salizhan Sharipov, Terrence W. Wilcutt, human spaceflight, Wikidata incident incident [[1] ] Wikidata link article missing article @ Wikidata
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