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Mind you, that shuttle was 22 years old...
Must be horrible for the families ot those who were on that mission.
They should have used another of the space shuttles after the incident a couple of months ago about the heirline cracks.
Maybe that heirline crak problem was a warning of some kind say not to got into space this time with the space shuttle Columbia.
How much would it have costed if they swaped to another space shuttle? Surely not as much as the original cost of using Cloumbia?
They are saying "foul play has not been ruled out".
Are they going to try an pin this on Saddam or Bin Laden?
By the way I don't think Saddam or Bin Laden would have the technology to shoot down an object which is 200,000 feet in the air and travelling at 12,000 miles an hour!
• STS-107 Flight: January 16-February 1, 2003
Crew:
o Commander Rick D. Husband (second flight),
o Pilot William C. McCool (first flight),
o Payload Specialist Michael P. Anderson (second flight),
o Mission Specialist Kalpana Chawla (second flight),
o Mission Specialist David M. Brown (first flight),
o Mission Specialist Laurel B. Clark (first flight),
o Payload Specialist Ilan Ramon, Israel (first flight)
First flight:
April 12-14, 1981 (Crew John W. Young and Robert Crippen)
Most recent flight:
STS-109, March 1-12, 2002 Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission
From www.NASA.gov
A Space Shuttle contingency was declared earlier this morning in Mission Control when communication was lost with the Space Shuttle Columbia during its return to Earth following a 16-day mission.
Communication and tracking of the shuttle was lost at 9 a.m. at an altitude of about 203,000 feet above north central Texas while traveling approximately 12,500 miles per hour (Mach 18).
No communication and tracking information was received in Mission Control after that time.
Flight controllers in Mission Control immediately began the process of securing all information, notes and data pertinent to today's reentry and landing.
except I don't like the way Terrorism was linked to it. Always blame the muslims eh?
ugh