Direct answer: The space shuttle that burned up on reentry was Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) in 2003. No other shuttle has burned up on reentry in a confirmed disaster since then.
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If you’d like, I can pull reputable sources with exact dates and incident details or provide a concise timeline of the Columbia incident and its aftermath.
Read our full story. The shuttle crew will be performing another series of heat shield inspections tomorrow, then packing up the cabin and testing flight controls Tuesday. The deorbit burn to begin reentry is scheduled for 4:56 a.m. EDT Wednesday, with a predawn touchdown on Kennedy Space Center's three-mile concrete runway at 5:58 a.m.
spaceflightnow.comThe space shuttle Columbia, which tore apart killing all seven of its crew on Feb. 1 just minutes before it was scheduled to land, may have been doomed since its liftoff.
www.sciencenews.orgNASA lost communication with space shuttle Columbia and the orbiter did not appear in the skies over Central Florida.
www.space.comThe spacecraft had undocked from the space station only hours before.
www.space.comChina's defunct Tiangong-1 space lab is expected to make a fiery re-entry into the earth's atmosphere in the coming days and disintegrate in what Chinese authorities promise will be a "splendid" show.
phys.orgNASA on Saturday cleared the shuttle Endeavour's heat shield of any concerns after one last check of a gouge on its belly.
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