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Stories about: disintegration

Experimental Data Recovered from Columbia Disaster Hard Drive On the 1st of February 2003, the space shuttle Columbia re-entered Earth's atmosphere while severely damaged to the left wing. The intense heat generated by the friction with the air eventually weakened the structural integrity of the vehicle and determined its disintegration, killing the crew of seven it was ca... 10 May 2008 04:26 GMT NASA Commemorates Five Years from the Columbia Disaster Only four days ago, the world remembered the events which took place 22 years ago, when the space shuttle Challenger disintegrated into the Earth's atmosphere during a failed launch attempt. Through an unfortunate chain of events, five years ago, the space shuttle Columbia suffered a similar outcome during a re-... 1 February 2008 08:57 GMT