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  • Fans of the original Star Trek television series were largely responsible for NASA naming the first Space Shuttle Enterprise. In the television series Star Trek: Enterprise both the first and second starships of the human-built NX-Class, registry numbers NX-01 and NX-02 respectively, were named in honor of pre-existing NASA Space Shuttles. The second vessel's name was first revealed in the season 3 episode "E²" to be Columbia, in honor of the Space Shuttle Columbia following its destruction on February 1, 2003. The uniforms on NX-02 Columbia bear a crew patch depicting 7 stars, in honor of the astronauts who died in the accident.
  • The 1982 documentary film Hail Columbia focuses on the first mission of the shuttle.
  • The 1982 Rush song "Countdown" is about the launch of STS-1. All three members of the group were present at the launch, and the credits of the album Signals dedicated the song to "the astronauts Young & Crippen and all the people of NASA for their inspiration and cooperation".
  • Crew members from Mission STS-73 (Ken Bowersox, Catherine G. Coleman, Kathryn C. Thornton, Frederick W. Leslie, and Albert Sacco) were featured in the Home Improvement television show in the 1996 episode "Fear of Flying" as well as scenes from the shuttle mission.
  • Homer Hickam's 1999 novel Back to the Moon is mostly set on Columbia. The structural differences between Columbia and the other shuttles are central to the plot.
  • In the 2000 finale of the first season of The West Wing, "What Kind of Day Has It Been", Columbia does not land on schedule due to technical problems with a door mechanism. Toby Ziegler's brother is on board. The shuttle lands successfully by the end of the episode.
  • In the episode Wild Horses of the Japanese Anime Cowboy Bebop, the Columbia rescues Spike in his spaceship, Swordfish, from burning up in atmosphere after he runs out of fuel and is trapped in earth's gravitation. The Columbia is only alluded to as a hidden project the character Doohan is working on throughout the episode until it is rolled out and launches to rescue Spike.

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