The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster occurred on Feb. 1, 2003, upon re-entry into the earth’s atmosphere, in fact, only sixteen minutes before its scheduled landing at the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The space shuttle had been into a 16 day trip to the orbit where it had successfully conducted over eighty experiments ranging from fluid physics to biology. There are several possible reasons, before and after the launch which might have influenced the failure of the shuttle and eventual disaster which took the life of all the seven crew members.