00:01On this day in space.
00:03In 2005, the space shuttle Discovery launched on the first return-to-flight mission following the Columbia disaster that killed
00:09seven crew members a little over two years earlier.
00:12A few seconds after launching from Kennedy Space Center, a huge bird flew straight into the top of the shuttle's
00:17external fuel tank.
00:18It didn't cause any damage, but NASA says incidents like this can be catastrophic.
00:23A few minutes later, two pieces of foam were seen flying away from the shuttle, one of which collided with
00:27the orbiter's right wing.
00:28Luckily, those didn't cause any critical damage either.
00:32STS-114 safely returned after spending two weeks in space.
00:36And that's what happened on this day in space.
