An Anime predicted the Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster

In 1999, Cowboy Bebop, a popular Anime based in the future, aired episodes with a plot involving an “antique” spacecraft named Columbia (that looks a lot like current space shuttles) being used in a rescue mission. The mission almost fails because the “heat resistant tiles” peeled off during the mission.

Then, in 2003, the real Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated after its heat resistant tiles peeled off during launch.

In 1999, Cowboy Bebop, a popular Anime based in the future, aired episodes with a plot involving an “antique” spacecraft named Columbia (that looks a lot like current space shuttles) being used in a rescue mission. The mission almost fails because the “heat resistant tiles” peeled off during the mission.

Then, in 2003, the real Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated after its heat resistant tiles peeled off during launch.