Travel Bug Dog Tag Columbia

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Owner:
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Released:
Monday, February 17, 2003
Origin:
California, United States
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Please help Columbia glide back to California. She fell short in the 2003 travel bug Cannonball Run.

About This Item

Bless the crew of Columbia.

Please log her 6-digit tag number at her travel bug webpage at pick-up. After drop-off, remember to use the drop-down at the bottom of the cache webpage. Thanx!

http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/STS-1/Small/EC81-15104.jpg

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Tracking History (8976.4mi) View Map

Discovered It 3/1/2016 Anberta discovered it   Visit Log

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Visited 6/20/2015 bthomas took it to Eats California - 19.99 miles  Visit Log

Waypointing my Columbia travel bug on this date. On 6/20/2015, I was returning to California from a 3500 mile caching road trip of Nevada and Utah, and I had the 2003 Columbia shuttle TB in the car. Previously used the former GC338F Ma Greens General Store virt http://www.geocaching.com/geocache/GC338F_ma-greens-general-store-formerly?guid=7c9e229c-ec42-4ce8-a818-1d9e6dad6973 to waypoint for Edwards AFB, but it is archived and locked. Link for GC338F and 2009 Edwards air show http://www.geocaching.com/seek/log.aspx?LUID=40820e6b-37e4-44e0-9f6a-253c544c5648 .

B-52-B #52-0008 (dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/B-52/HTML/EC96-43808-4 http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/B-52/HTML/EC96-43808-4.html made 106 launches of the X-15.
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  • Columbia TB and B-52 0008
  • B-52-B #52-008
  • NASA Dryden-Armstrong, Edwards AFB
  • X-15 launches
Retrieve It from a Cache 5/23/2009 bthomas retrieved it from KILL BILL'S CHURCH California   Visit Log

Hoped to catch the Shuttle Atlantis landing at Edwards, but they postponed to a 3rd day. Instead, worked the letter C, for Columbia, in the NO CLUE cache series.

  • On TV the next morning
  • Edwards Dry Lake & Rwy 2 2
  • 747 with shuttle brackets
  • S. Gate near Mercury Rd access
Dropped Off 5/23/2009 bthomas placed it in KILL BILL'S CHURCH California - 314.94 miles  Visit Log
Write note 10/24/2007 bthomas posted a note for it   Visit Log

Tonight the husband of Flt Engineer Dr. Kalpana Chawla gave a presentation on STS-107 Columbia. KC was a researcher at Ames Research Ctr, and earned various pilot certifications at West Valley Flying Club.

  • The crew of STS-107
  • Space Congressional Medal of Honor
  • KC's other medals
  • STS-107 patch
Retrieve It from a Cache 2/13/2007 bthomas retrieved it from Laureola California   Visit Log

SQL 2030 Zulu: Pilot in command 0.5 hours. Solo pilot!

  • Solo pilot
Dropped Off 2/13/2007 bthomas placed it in Laureola California - 2.11 miles  Visit Log

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[This entry was edited by bthomas on Tuesday, February 13, 2007 at 6:51:57 PM.]
Retrieve It from a Cache 2/22/2006 bthomas retrieved it from Quest for the Masks: Ga-Wahi California   Visit Log

Columbia has landed home!!! The odometer says 8500 miles, and the chronometer says 3 years and 5 days. She did not place, in the 2003 Canonball Run. Shuttle manager notes that Columbia sufferred major structural damage, with the loss of the tail. She still continued flying.

Thanks one and all for the shuttle guidance, and a final thanks to SnoWake for the final approach and landing.

Mission complete.
Dropped Off 2/20/2006 SnoWake placed it in Quest for the Masks: Ga-Wahi California - 104.29 miles  Visit Log

Columbia made a couple orbits with me between the bay area and Tahoe, before finally touching down in Redwood Shores. Hopefully Ben can get here and recover the shuttle...

[This entry was edited by SnoWake on Wednesday, February 22, 2006 at 12:37:52 AM.]
Retrieve It from a Cache 1/29/2006 SnoWake retrieved it from Travel Bug Rest Stop Rocklin/Loomis II California   Visit Log

Hey, didn't realize this was one of Ben's bugs when I grabbed it. Looks like I can help Columbia complete her journey home... just need to find the right landing strip.
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