With sadness, I relay that the Space Shuttle Columbia and Crew Are Lost.
-BAM


>> Television views captured by a Texas station shows the shuttle breaking up.

Click here for photo:
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/02/01/shuttle.columbia/index.html

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http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sts107_update_030201.html

Columbia Missing on Re-Entry, Crew Presumed Lost
By Jim Banke
Senior Producer, Cape Canaveral Bureau
posted: 10:08 am ET
01 February 2003

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The space shuttle Columbia is presumed missing and
the crew lost.

NASA lost communication with space shuttle Columbia and the orbiter did not
appear in the skies over Central Florida as expected during re-entry Saturday
morning.

Television views captured by a Texas station shows the shuttle breaking up.

NASA last received communications with the shuttle at about 9 a.m. EST (1400
GMT)
as the orbiter flew above Texas.

Columbia was carrying a crew of seven astronauts: commander Rick Husband,
pilot Willie McCool and mission specialists Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Clark,
Mike Anderson, David Brown and Israeli payload specialist Ilan Ramon.

... [courtesy Space.Com ]
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http://www.space.com/missionlaunches/sts107_update_030201.html