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Tuesday, 1 February 2003 – Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts aboard.

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This seems to be a bad 2 weeks for the shuttle program in history...

I remember when this happened- I called my flight instructor & let him know. Don't know why, but that's who I called...

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yikes,

My brother called me from just North of Dallas.. he unfortunately watched the debris trail across the sky.

I saw one of these come in (the right way) back in the Spring of 1996. I was living in San Antonio at the time. It was about 3 am and it was a bright green/orange contrail emblazoned across the sky. I was trying to figure out just the the heck was going on.., then the next morning it they said it was Atlantis coming in over Texas to Florida for an early morning 'night' landing.

Very cool site!

G*d bless Columbia and her crew. I was a kid when she first went up in 1980. I was up almost all night watching the coverage.., back when there WAS coverage.

Blue Skies!

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Contact Lost was written for the Shuttle Colombia. Purple Guitarist Steve Morse is a long time aviator and DP CD's were being carried on the shuttle by Kalpana Chawla.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShvdoGxAYG4

I'm getting a little old but is it true Ritchie Blackmore plays baroque music with his wife as singer, and Deep Purple has this young rocker Morse that plays faster and cleaner than Blackmore ever did?
And Ian Gillan just keeps on singin'.
Wow.
Chris...

True. Ritchie's basically retired, only playing less than 20 shows a year and an album every two years. I've been to five gigs of his and love the new stuff. In 2009 in the same week in Deutschland I got to three of his shows and saw Webber's first win in F1. The second show had Ritchie going electric for alot of the set. I was right in front and seeing him riff away right there was priceless. I'm a Morse fan too and was before he joined DP so happy with that. The new DP album should hit this year. Fingers crossed it's good, because the last one was the worst DP album ever- a huge disappointment after the first three Morse were very good and sometimes great.