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"Streaking through the atmosphere at 18 times the speed of sound, Columbia disintegrated Saturday morning about 15 minutes before its scheduled landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida."

Here's more about it...

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/space/0...bia/index.html

It was on the news all day long...my sorrow goes out to the lives of those 7 memebers aboard who died, and their families as well. I heard that Israel's first man into space was on board...tragic.