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| Debris from the space shuttle Columbia streaking across the sky over Tyler, Texas. A chunk of insulation that had broken off the Columbia's external fuel tank during takeoff damaged the shuttle's left wing heat shield, causing the craft to disintegrate when it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere. -- PHOTO: ASSOCIATED PRESS | ||
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| Members of the Columbia Reconstruction Team examining pieces of debris from the spacecraft in 2003. Seven astronauts died in the disaster on Feb 1 that year. -- PHOTO: REUTERS | ||
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| The space shuttle's pilot William McCool (left) and commander Rick Husband in the last moments of its ill-fated return to Earth in 2003. -- PHOTO: REUTERS | ||
