Space Shuttle Columbia disaster

Quality:

Space Shuttle Columbia disaster - 2003 fatal incident in a United States space program. Article “Space Shuttle Columbia disaster” in Simple English Wikipedia has 24.1 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 0 references and 4 sections.

This article has the best quality in English Wikipedia. Also, this article is the most popular in that (Simple English) language version.

Achievements in all the time:

Global Wikipedia:

The 8398^th most popular in all topics.

Since the creation of article “Space Shuttle Columbia disaster”, its content was written by 23 registered users of Simple English Wikipedia and edited by 2139 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 44 times in Simple English Wikipedia and cited 3895 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Simple English): #1591 in October 2018
• Global: #4 in February 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Simple English): #3675 in April 2026
• Global: #225 in April 2026

There are 33 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	English (en) Space Shuttle Columbia disaster		97.6709
2	Spanish (es) Accidente del transbordador espacial Columbia		95.9092
3	Hungarian (hu) Columbia-katasztrófa		94.495
4	Portuguese (pt) Acidente do ônibus espacial Columbia		92.0999
5	Estonian (et) Kosmosesüstiku Columbia katastroof		65.7469
6	Chinese (zh) 哥伦比亚号航天飞机灾难		63.8656
7	Slovak (sk) Havária raketoplánu Columbia		57.6301
8	Japanese (ja) コロンビア号空中分解事故		55.1711
9	Greek (el) Καταστροφή του Κολούμπια		53.0231
10	Hebrew (he) אסון מעבורת החלל קולומביה		48.3914

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Space Shuttle Columbia disaster		21 924 091
2	Japanese (ja) コロンビア号空中分解事故		2 989 062
3	French (fr) Accident de la navette spatiale Columbia		1 140 562
4	Russian (ru) Катастрофа шаттла «Колумбия»		1 100 779
5	Italian (it) Disastro dello Space Shuttle Columbia		915 871
6	Spanish (es) Accidente del transbordador espacial Columbia		849 220
7	Polish (pl) Katastrofa promu Columbia		516 609
8	Portuguese (pt) Acidente do ônibus espacial Columbia		477 108
9	Chinese (zh) 哥伦比亚号航天飞机灾难		476 062
10	Hebrew (he) אסון מעבורת החלל קולומביה		338 818

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Space Shuttle Columbia disaster		57 591
2	Japanese (ja) コロンビア号空中分解事故		10 013
3	French (fr) Accident de la navette spatiale Columbia		3 532
4	Russian (ru) Катастрофа шаттла «Колумбия»		3 205
5	Spanish (es) Accidente del transbordador espacial Columbia		1 757
6	Chinese (zh) 哥伦比亚号航天飞机灾难		1 585
7	Italian (it) Disastro dello Space Shuttle Columbia		1 541
8	Polish (pl) Katastrofa promu Columbia		1 099
9	Portuguese (pt) Acidente do ônibus espacial Columbia		685
10	Hebrew (he) אסון מעבורת החלל קולומביה		507

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Space Shuttle Columbia disaster		1 097
2	French (fr) Accident de la navette spatiale Columbia		138
3	Japanese (ja) コロンビア号空中分解事故		109
4	Hebrew (he) אסון מעבורת החלל קולומביה		104
5	Italian (it) Disastro dello Space Shuttle Columbia		103
6	Portuguese (pt) Acidente do ônibus espacial Columbia		70
7	Russian (ru) Катастрофа шаттла «Колумбия»		62
8	Hungarian (hu) Columbia-katasztrófa		57
9	Chinese (zh) 哥伦比亚号航天飞机灾难		51
10	Polish (pl) Katastrofa promu Columbia		43

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Space Shuttle Columbia disaster		3
2	Hungarian (hu) Columbia-katasztrófa		1
3	Indonesian (id) Musibah Pesawat Ulang Alik Columbia		1
4	Portuguese (pt) Acidente do ônibus espacial Columbia		1
5	Chinese (zh) 哥伦比亚号航天飞机灾难		1
6	Arabic (ar) كارثة مكوك الفضاء كولومبيا		0
7	Catalan (ca) Accident del transbordador espacial Columbia		0
8	Czech (cs) Havárie raketoplánu Columbia		0
9	Greek (el) Καταστροφή του Κολούμπια		0
10	Spanish (es) Accidente del transbordador espacial Columbia		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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