Columbia

Summary

Columbia is a Space Shuttle orbiter^[1]. Columbia draws 3,119 Wikipedia views per month (space_shuttle_orbiter category, ranking #1 of 9).^[2]

Key Facts

• Columbia's image is recorded as Space Shuttle Columbia launching.jpg^[3].
• Columbia's instance of is recorded as former entity^[4].
• Columbia's owned by is recorded as National Aeronautics and Space Administration^[5].
• Columbia's operator is recorded as National Aeronautics and Space Administration^[6].
• Columbia Rediviva is named after Columbia^[7].
• Columbia's manufacturer is recorded as Rockwell International^[8].
• Columbia's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 148227872^[9].
• Columbia's GND ID is recorded as 4719748-1^[10].
• Columbia's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n81116268^[11].
• Columbia's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11947052m^[12].
• Columbia's part of is recorded as Space Shuttle program^[13].
• Columbia's part of is recorded as space mission^[14].
• Columbia's Commons category is recorded as Space Shuttle Columbia^[15].
• Columbia's country of origin is recorded as United States^[16].
• Columbia's first flight is recorded as +1981-04-12T00:00:00Z^[17].
• Columbia's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06_sn^[18].
• Columbia's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as kn20030424008^[19].
• Columbia's significant event is recorded as contract awarding^[20].
• Columbia's significant event is recorded as rollout^[21].
• Columbia's significant event is recorded as delivery^[22].
• Columbia's significant event is recorded as maiden flight^[23].
• Columbia's significant event is recorded as deployment^[24].
• Columbia's significant event is recorded as last flight^[25].
• Columbia's significant event is recorded as Space Shuttle Columbia disaster^[26].
• Columbia's described at URL is recorded as https://www.nasa.gov/centers/kennedy/shuttleoperations/orbiters/columbia_info.html^[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Things named for Columbia include Columbia Hills^[28], a hill^[29] and Columbia Memorial Station^[30], a lander^[31].

Why It Matters

Columbia draws 3,119 Wikipedia views per month (space_shuttle_orbiter category, ranking #1 of 9).^[2] Columbia has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.^[32] Columbia is known by 14 alternative names across languages and contexts.^[33]

Entities named for Columbia include Columbia Hills^[28], a hill^[29] and Columbia Memorial Station^[30], a lander^[31].