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20 years after Columbia disaster, NASA remembers crew and lessons learned

Twenty years ago this Wednesday — on Feb. 1, 2003, at 8:48:39 a.m. EST — a sensor in the space shuttle Columbia's left wing first recorded unusual stress as the orbiter and its seven crew members ...
Houston Public Media

Twenty years after the Columbia disaster, a NASA official reflects on lessons learned

It's been exactly 20 years since the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it returned to Earth, killing all seven astronauts on board: commander Rick Husband, pilot Willie McCool, mission ...
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20 years after Columbia shuttle tragedy, NASA pledges 'acute awareness' of astronaut safety

It was 20 years ago today (Feb. 1) that seven astronauts lost their lives during a spaceflight. The spacecraft Columbia broke up during the landing phase of the STS-107 mission in 2003, scattering ...
CNN

Opinion: NASA was America’s crown jewel. After the Columbia disaster it was never quite the same

Editor’s Note: Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University. He is the author of “American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great ...
Los Angeles Times

Columbia Report Places NASA’s Future Up in the Air

NASA is facing the daunting task of self-preservation during the next year as it works to resume space shuttle flights and redress the serious defects in the nation’s human space program laid bare by ...
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Columbia disaster anniversary: NASA marks 10 years since shuttle breakup

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) - Schoolchildren joined NASA managers and relatives of the lost crew of space shuttle Columbia on Friday to mark the 10th anniversary of the tragedy and remember the seven ...