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Shuttle disintegrates, 7 astronauts dead

A massive recovery effort is under way to recover debris from the space shuttle Columbia scattered across eastern Texas and western Louisiana, where the orbiter fell on Saturday. NASA is vowing to discover what caused the shuttle to break apart nearly 40 miles above the Earth on its descent toward Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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NASA promised a stunned nation that it will conduct an exhaustive investigation into the Columbia tragedy. Meanwhile, authorities probed wreckage for clues on what went wrong upon re-entry.

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Ilan Ramon was Israel's first astronaut.

"A fighter pilot in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s, Illan Ramon flew F-16s and F-4s, fought in the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and the Lebanon War in 1982. And in 1981, he took part in the destruction of Iraq's nuclear reactor at Osirak.

The 48-year-old, a colonel in Israel's air force, came from a family of fighters and Holocaust survivors. His father and grandfather had fought together for Israel's statehood. His mother and grandmother survived the Auschwitz death camp."

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CBSNews.com

In the aftermath of the loss of space shuttle Columbia and her crew of seven, NASA has assembled teams of investigators to piece together the mystery of what went wrong.  More...

 

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