Photos: Remembering the space shuttle Columbia disaster
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CAPE CANAVERAL, FL - JANUARY 16: (FILE PHOTO) The left side of the Space Shuttle Columbia is seen during launch on January 16, 2003 at Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA Mission Control lost contact with the Space Shuttle Columbia during reentry on February 1, 2003 and later learned that the shuttle had broken up over Texas. Debris from the wreckage drifted hundreds of miles from central Texas to eastern Louisiana. Investigators are looking at problems with the left wing during the reentry sequence as a possible cause of the crash. (Photo by NASA/Getty Images)