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The Space Shuttle Columbia and its seven member crew were lost 10 years ago, on February 1, 2003.

  1. The space shuttle orbiter Columbia is launched for the first space transportation system test mission, 04/12/1981
  2. Flowers and homemade signs are placed at the front gate of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Ames Research Center at Moffett Federal Airfield (MFA), Mountain View, California (CA) in a spontaneous memorial for the Space Shuttle Columbia (STS-107) astronauts. 
  3. The remains of an American Astronaut are carried by the Barksdale Air Force Base (AFB), Louisiana (LA) Honor Guard to a waiting C-141 Starlifter for transfer to Dover AFB, Delaware (DE).

Source: arcweb.archives.gov

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