Space shuttle Columbia breaks up on return to earth

Space shuttle Columbia breaks up on return to earth

HOUSTON, United States - People place flowers and balloons among other items Feb. 1 at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, to mourn the seven astronauts who died in a space shuttle disaster. The U.S. space shuttle Columbia broke up and disintegrated at high altitude over Texas earlier in the day shortly before it was due to land at Kennedy Space Center in Florida following a 16-day space mission.

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