Columbia Disaster: Images

[The_RANDy_Corporation]

All photos from here, (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=index2&cid=702) unless otherwise noted.

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The space shuttle Columbia was feared crashed in northeastern Texas, February 1, 2003, with seven astronauts on board. The seven STS-107 crew members take a break from their training regime to pose for the traditional crew portrait. Seated in front are astronauts Rick D. Husband (left), mission commander; Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist; and William C. McCool, pilot. Standing are (from the left} astronauts David M. Brown, Laurel B. Clark, and Michael P. Anderson, all mission specialists; and Ilan Ramon, payload specialist representing the Israeli Space Agency. This photo was taken October, 2001.

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The space shuttle Columbia appeared to explode and break up in the skies over Texas on February 1, 2003 with seven astronauts on board after it lost contact with NASA minutes before its scheduled landing in Florida. A video still shows Columbia apparently breaking up and reports of debris landing across a large swatch of Texas followed soon after this image was taken. (James Lenamon, KXAS-TV DALLAS,NBC via Reuters)

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A piece (bottom) of the space shuttle Columbia lies in the middle of a parking lot in downtown Nacogdoches, Texas February 1, 2003. REUTERS/Richard Carson

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Dorothy Brown, the mother of Mission specialist Dr. David M. Brown, sits on a chair in front of photos of her son and his crew in their home in Washington, Va., Saturday Feb. 1, 2003. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

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A security officer is shown with the shuttle landing facility and a waiting fire truck in the background after the scheduled landing of the space shuttle Columbia at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida February 1, 2003. (Reuters/Duffin McGee)

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NASA security remove the space shuttle Columbia flag from the flagpole at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida after the Columbia broke apart in flames over Texas, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2003. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)

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Scott Lueders (L) and Billy Specht, employees at the Kennedy Space Center's Visitors Center, places a wreath before a memorial service for the space shuttle Columbia astronauts at the Astronaut Memorial in Cape Canaveral, Florida February 1, 2003. NASA said Saturday all seven astronauts aboard the space shuttle Columbia were apparently killed after it broke up just 16 minutes from its scheduled landing. REUTERS/Karl Ronstrom

[The_RANDy_Corporation]

This one I find rather haunting for some reason.

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This radar loop from the National Weather Service (news - web sites)'s Shreveport, Louisiana radar station shows a streak crossing the Texas-Louisiana border south of Shreveport on February 1, 2003 after the Space Shuttle Columbia broke up over Texas. The streak is thought to reflect the smoke plum caused by the shuttle as it disintegrated. (NWS-NOAA, Shreveport via Reuters Graphic)

[Warlady]

Such a tragedy. God bless them and their families. Please give them strength during their time of grief.