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02-01-2003, 01:56 PM
Residents Find Shuttle Debris in Texas (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=533&e=3&cid=533&u=/ap/20030201/ap_on_sc/shuttle_debris)
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By PAM EASTON, Associated Press Writer
NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Bits of machinery and pieces of metal were found strewn across a wide area of east Texas after the space shuttle Columbia broke apart. One piece crashed through the roof of a dentist's office.
Police and NASA officials warned residents the debris could be toxic and should not be touched. The Environmental Protection Agency (news - web sites) prepared to coordinate a cleanup, and the Army's 1st Cavalry Division deployed a task force --including helicopters and military police -- to help search for wreckage.
"It's all over Nacogdoches," said James Milford, owner of a barber shop in downtown. "There are several little pieces, some parts of machinery ... there's been a lot of pieces about 3 feet wide."
On the edge of downtown Nacogdoches, 135 miles northeast of Houston, a National Guardsman stood watch over a steel rod with silver bolts that landed in the grass outside a yard. People streamed up to take photos of the debris.
NASA lost communication with Columbia as the ship soared across Texas at an altitude of about 200,000 feet.
Debris was reported in several east Texas counties and along the Texas-Louisiana border. A fisherman from DeRidder, La., Elbie Bradley, reported hearing a falling object splash into the Toledo Bend reservoir, which straddles the border.
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<font size=1>35 minutes ago</font>
By PAM EASTON, Associated Press Writer
NACOGDOCHES, Texas - Bits of machinery and pieces of metal were found strewn across a wide area of east Texas after the space shuttle Columbia broke apart. One piece crashed through the roof of a dentist's office.
Police and NASA officials warned residents the debris could be toxic and should not be touched. The Environmental Protection Agency (news - web sites) prepared to coordinate a cleanup, and the Army's 1st Cavalry Division deployed a task force --including helicopters and military police -- to help search for wreckage.
"It's all over Nacogdoches," said James Milford, owner of a barber shop in downtown. "There are several little pieces, some parts of machinery ... there's been a lot of pieces about 3 feet wide."
On the edge of downtown Nacogdoches, 135 miles northeast of Houston, a National Guardsman stood watch over a steel rod with silver bolts that landed in the grass outside a yard. People streamed up to take photos of the debris.
NASA lost communication with Columbia as the ship soared across Texas at an altitude of about 200,000 feet.
Debris was reported in several east Texas counties and along the Texas-Louisiana border. A fisherman from DeRidder, La., Elbie Bradley, reported hearing a falling object splash into the Toledo Bend reservoir, which straddles the border.
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Click here to read more (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=533&e=3&cid=533&u=/ap/20030201/ap_on_sc/shuttle_debris)