Columbia Tragedy Debris Found in Texas

Only 16 minutes before landing to Earth, a piece of insulating material apart from the fuel tank struck the left wing of Columbia at high speed.

What then happened was a tragedy. Space shuttle exploded, killing the seven astronauts who recently completed 16-day mission in it. Tragic story on February 1, 2003 is now back up.

Columbia aircraft debris found in Texas in the form of tanks, the United States last week. Spherical aluminum tank that serves the storage and distribution. It was found in open areas near Lake Nacogdoches, Texas, 160 miles from Houston known NASA control center.

"It came as the dry season makes water lake is shrinking, so the tanks were in sight," said a spokesman for NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Lisa Malone told SPACE.com, August 2, 2011. "The tank was filled with mud."

Once found, Nacogdoches police team to inform on NASA and send pictures for identification. Then, the engineers of the National Space Agency confirmed the U.S. findings. "One of the engineers who worked here over 30 years to recognize it."

Fractions it is one of 16 storage tanks of liquid oxygen and hydrogen. 1 meter diameter tank is stored at the Kennedy Space Center - NASA's store where the Columbia debris.

To date, approximately 38-40 percent of the Columbia wreckage has been collected. The rest, allegedly burned the atmosphere upon entering Earth's orbit. Or, landing somewhere in Texas and Louisiana.

Seven crew members were killed in the incident, ie, D Rick Husband, William C. McCool, Michael P Anderson, Ilan Ramon - Israel's first astronaut, David Brown, Laurel Salton Clark, and Kalpana Chalwa, the first woman astronaut of Indian origin.

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