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Columbia Shuttle Accident: How NASA Faced Its Toughest Challenge
The Space Shuttle Columbia accident remains one of the most tragic and significant events in the history of space exploration ...
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Space Shuttle Columbia
The Director of NASA’s Johnson Space Center, Vanessa Wyche, says NASA and this community are forever bonded together.“The community came out to help with the search and recovery, and helped ...
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Twenty years after the Columbia disaster, a NASA official reflects on lessons learned
It's been exactly 20 years since the Space Shuttle ... Columbia investigation, told Morning Edition's Steve Inskeep that she remembers that day: She was in Florida getting ready to greet the crew.
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20 years after space shuttle Columbia disaster, lessons learned still in sharp focus at NASA
From the archives: Watch CBS News coverage of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on Feb. 1, 2003, in the video above. Twenty years ago this Wednesday — on Feb. 1, 2003, at 8:48:39 a.m. EST ...
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Remembering the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy 20 years on
The space shuttle Columbia has been seen apparently breaking up in the skies over Texas as it returned to Earth. All seven crew members died. And that day, Pat Duggins joined Weekend Edition for ...
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Space Shuttle Columbia Crew Remembered on 20th Anniversary of Disaster
2023-02-01T12:19:06-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/c22/1675273413.jpgTexas Republican Senator John Cornyn remembers the seven-member crew of the Space Shuttle ...
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Space Shuttle Columbia launched for the last time 20 years ago
Space Shuttle Columbia lifted off at 10:39 a.m. Jan. 16, 2003 from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A with a crew of seven. “The Lord has blessed us with a beautiful day here,” mission ...
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Educator shares connection to Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy
debris and the bodies of the crew were found by search parties. “We were able to recover over 85,000 parts from the vehicle in the local area whether it be Nacogdoches, Hemphill, Sabine,” said Ewenson ...
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Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentry 20 years ago today
The program resumed operations with STS-114, launching Space Shuttle Discovery in July 2005. In the wake of the Columbia disaster, in August 2003, seven asteroids were named after the seven crew ...
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The audacious rescue plan that might have saved space shuttle Columbia
February 1, 2023: One of the most tragic events in the history of space exploration is the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and all seven of her crew on February 1, 2003—a tragedy made worse ...
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Remembering The Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster, On This Day In 2003
During the mission, the seven-member crew worked on 80 U.S. and international experiments aboard a Spacehab Double Research Module in Columbia’s payload bay. Space shuttle Columbia began its ...