Twenty years ago, the space shuttle Columbia exploded while reentering the atmosphere.
On February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated over Texas in a mixture of thick fog and deafening noise, claiming the lives of seven astronauts and hastening the withdrawal of the American space shuttles. April 3, 2003: The 35,000 pieces of debris recovered from the Columbia, scattered in a Kennedy Space Center hangar, for investigation purposes AFP … Read more