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02-01-2003, 09:49 AM
Shuttle Disintegrates in Flames Over Texas
All Seven Astronauts Believed to Be Dead
By Guy Gugliotta and William Harwood
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, February 1, 2003; 11:22 AM
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Feb. 1 -- The space shuttle Columbia, traveling 12,500 miles per hour as it re-entered Earth's atmosphere after a 16-day science mission, disintegrated in flames 200,000 feet above north central Texas today with seven astronauts aboard.
Residents of north Texas said they heard a loud explosion about 9 a.m. Video cameras recorded multiple contrails spraying outward from the spacecraft, minutes away from landing on a brilliant, sunny winter's morning.
SOURCE (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10088-2003Feb1.html)
All Seven Astronauts Believed to Be Dead
By Guy Gugliotta and William Harwood
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, February 1, 2003; 11:22 AM
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Feb. 1 -- The space shuttle Columbia, traveling 12,500 miles per hour as it re-entered Earth's atmosphere after a 16-day science mission, disintegrated in flames 200,000 feet above north central Texas today with seven astronauts aboard.
Residents of north Texas said they heard a loud explosion about 9 a.m. Video cameras recorded multiple contrails spraying outward from the spacecraft, minutes away from landing on a brilliant, sunny winter's morning.
SOURCE (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10088-2003Feb1.html)