NASA marks 10 years since space shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas

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The Dallas Morning News:

 

NASA marks 10 years since space shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas

 

Associated Press

 

Published: 01 February 2013 08:00 AM

 

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA will honor the seven astronauts who perished when the space shuttle Columbia was destroyed 10 years ago.

 

The space agency will mark the anniversary Friday at a public memorial service at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Speakers include Evelyn Husband Thompson, who was married to the shuttle’s commander.

The accident on Feb. 1, 2003, killed six Americans and Israel’s first astronaut.