Comm Check...: The Final Flight of Shuttle Columbia AUTH-3700486 First published in 1907

First published in 1907

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Comm Check...: The Final Flight of Shuttle Columbia AUTH-3700486 First published in 1907On February 1, 2003, the unthinkable happened. The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated 37 miles above Texas, seven brave astronauts were killed and America's space program, always an eyeblink from disaster, suffered its second catastrophic in flight failure. Unlike the Challenger disaster 17 years earlier, Columbia's destruction left the nation one failure away from the potential abandonment of human space exploration. Media coverage in the immediate