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Special ceremonies are slated to mark the 20th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy, reported KJAS.com.
The shuttle broke up during re-entry on the morning of Saturday, Feb 1, 2003, taking the lives of her crew of seven astronauts. Pieces of the shuttle crashed to earth here in Deep East Texas, with the majority of the debris and the bodies of the astronauts landing in Sabine County.
In Hemphill, the Remembering Columbia Museum will host a series of events on Monday, Jan. 30, Tuesday, Jan. 31, and Wednesday, Feb. 1.
Also, other ceremonies will be held at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, and at other NASA facilities across the country.
Columbia’s last flight was commanded by Rick D. Husband and piloted by William C. McCool. Other crew members were David M. Brown, Dr. Kalpana Chawla, Michael P. Anderson, Laurel B. Clark and Ilan Ramon.