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February 01, 2006
What Price Space? (Columbia)
And just three years ago (2003) on this day, NASA's STS-107 mission crew, astronauts Rick Husband, William McCool, Michael Anderson, Ilan Ramon, Kalpana Chawla, David Brown, and Laurel Salton Clark, perished when the shuttle Columbia burned up on re-entry after the heat shielding on leading edge of the port wing was breached during liftoff by a piece of insulating foam from the main fuel tank fifteen days earlier.
![[ image: STS-107 Columbia Mission Patch ]](http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y124/tacitus/STS_107_patch.png)
Posted by Tacitus at February 1, 2006 02:07 PM