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Texas Draught Reveals Columbia Shuttle Disaster Debris

By Hank Campbell in Science 2.0
August 2, 2011
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Submitted by Hank on Tue, 08/02/2011 - 16:46
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A piece of debris from NASA's space shuttle Columbia has been discovered in Texas, eight years after the 2003 disaster that destroyed the spacecraft and killed its seven-astronaut crew during re-entry.

The debris is a round aluminum power reactant storage and distribution tank from Columbia and was discovered in an exposed area of Lake Nacogdoches, in Nacogdoches, Texas, about 160 miles northeast of Houston.

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