Space Shuttle Columbia disaster of the crew of "Columbia". "Seven" was premiered in 2007 by violinist Akiko Suwanai, conducted by Pierre Boulez, and it was recorded in 2012 with violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and the composer conducting. The 2008 album "Columbia: We Dare to Dream" by Anne Cabrera was written as a tribute to Space Shuttle "Columbia" STS-107, the crew, support teams, recovery teams, and the crew's families. A copy of the album on compact disc was flown aboard Space Shuttle "Discovery" mission STS-131 to the International Space Station by astronaut Clayton Anderson in April 2010. The Scottish Folk-Rock band Runrig included a song titled
Space Shuttle retirement for space access systems in the 1970s also, such as the Rockwell "Star-raker" Star-raker was a large single-stage to orbit design that used both rockets and ramjet for propulision. It was a contemporary to the Boeing "Reusable Aerodynamic Space Vehicle", which an all-rocket propulsion single-stage to orbit design. For comparison to an earlier retirement, when the Saturn IB was last flown in 1975 for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the Shuttle development program was already well underway. However, the Shuttle did not fly until 1981, which left a six-year gap in U.S. manned spaceflight. Because of this and other reasons, in