2003: Columbia shuttle disintegrates killing seven
Posted on: Feb. 1st, 2006 - news.bbc.co.uk
The US space shuttle Columbia has broken up as it re-entered the Earth's atmosphere killing all seven astronauts on board.
This is the first time there has been an accident on landing in the 42 years of space flight.
President George Bush told a nation in shock: "The Columbia is lost. There are no survivors."
Six of the seven astronauts were US citizens. They were Rick Husband, William McCool, Michael Anderson, David Brown, and female astronauts Laurel Clark and Indian-born Kalpana Chawla.
The seventh - fighter pilot Colonel Ilan Ramon - was Israel's first astronaut and was carrying with him a miniature Torah scroll of a Holocaust survivor.
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