Following a bidding war between rival labels, Silverchair signed a three-album recording contract with Sony Music subsidiary Murmur Records. On 9 December 1995, Silverchair played two songs, "Tomorrow" and "Pure Massacre" on Saturday Night Live. Australian rock music historian Ian McFarlane said, "As well as being the band's best album to date, it was universally acknowledged as one of the best albums of the year.

NASA also improved its ground imaging capabilities at Kennedy Space Center to better observe and monitor potential issues that occur during launch. Parks again arranged orchestral tracks for the band—they travelled to Prague to record with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.At 8:44:09 Columbia reentered the atmosphere at an altitude of 400,000 feet (120 km), a point named entry interface. During ascent at approximately 80 seconds, photo analysis shows that some debris from the area of the -Y ET Bipod Attach Point came loose and subsequently impacted the orbiter left wing, in the area of transition from Chine to Main Wing, creating a shower of smaller particles. In 2004, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe canceled a planned servicing of the Hubble Space Telescope and decided that future missions would all rendezvous with the ISS to ensure the safety of the crew. Everyone knew what it was, everyone wanted it and anyone who had one was totally trendy: we're talking about blow-up armchairs.

The damage to the debris indicated that the breach began at the wing's leading edge, allowing hot gas to get past the orbiter's thermal protection system. Produced by Nick Launay ( Birthday Party, Models, Midnight Oil) and released in February 1997, [10] [21] the album reached number one in Australia and yielded three top-10 singles: " Freak", " Abuse Me", and " Cemetery". When the Space Shuttle launched, the orbiter and SRBs were connected to the ET, which held the fuel for the SSMEs. Even at Christmas when it was freezing cold, all we wanted to do was make ice lollies with the Mr Frosty Ice Maker.

Their blow-up standard lamps and sculptures are created from transparent plastic, although it is their shape which makes them eye-catchers. In 2003, Gillies formed Tambalane with Wes Carr, initially as a song-writing project, and they released a self-titled album in 2005 and toured Australia. Young Modern became the fifth Silverchair album to top the ARIA Albums chart; they became the first artists to have five number-one albums on the ARIA Albums chart.

Loss of Columbia and seven astronauts; Space Shuttle fleet grounded for 29 months and subsequently retired after completion of the International Space Station. A shimmering beacon of blue Jell-O so much unlike the dull gray and floral wallpapered room I shared with my sister.To assess the possible damage to Columbia 's wing, members of the Debris Assessment Team made multiple requests to get imagery of the orbiter from the Department of Defense (DoD).

In 2007, they released their fifth album, Young Modern, and played the Across the Great Divide tour with contemporaries Powderfinger.Johns was open to musical collaboration with his former bandmates but not as a continuation of Silverchair as a band. The band have received six APRA Awards, with Johns winning three songwriting awards at the 2008 ceremony. They determined that the mission could have originally been extended for up to 30 days, after which the lithium hydroxide canisters that were used to remove carbon dioxide would have run out. After Columbia entered orbit, the NASA Intercenter Photo Working Group conducted a routine review of videos of the launch. At "age 11 or 12", singer-guitarist Johns and drummer Gillies rapped over an electronic keyboard's demo button under their first band name, The Silly Men.