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Seconds after launch, Space Shuttle
Columbia appears as a flaming tip of the smoke column it
trails. Following a flawless and uneventful countdown, liftoff
occurred on-time at 10:39 a.m. EST. The 16-day research mission will
include FREESTAR (Fast Reaction Experiments Enabling Science,
Technology, Applications and Research) and the SHI Research Double
Module (SHI/RDM), known as SPACEHAB. Experiments on the module range
from material sciences to life sciences. Landing is scheduled at about
8:53 a.m. EST on Saturday, Feb. 1. This mission is the first Shuttle
mission of 2003. Mission STS-107 is the 28th flight of the orbiter
Columbia and the 113th flight overall in NASA's Space Shuttle program.