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Space shuttle breaks apart over Texas; seven astronauts killed.
Byline: Martin Merzer, Phil Long and Seth Borenstein
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. _ Space shuttle Columbia, a 21st Century cargo ship carrying a cross-section of America's human treasure and the first Israeli astronaut, disintegrated in flames Saturday over Texas.
All seven astronauts died. They never had a chance. Astronauts have no way to escape a shuttle as it glides toward a landing without power at 13,000 miles per hour.
The crew included three U.S. military officers, one of the nation's few black astronauts and a woman who immigrated to America from India. Six were married. Between them, the astronauts of shuttle Columbia had 12 children.
Astronauts are pioneers on the frontiers of space. They depend on muscular but fragile technology. It let seven of them down on Saturday, but they knew the risks going in.
"I take the risk because I think what we're doing is really important," Michael Anderson, 43, Columbia's payload commander, said before Columbia blasted off from Cape Canaveral on Jan. 16. He was the son of an Air Force man and grew up on military bases. He was an African-American.
"This day has brought terrible news and great sadness to our country," President Bush said. "The Columbia is lost. There are no survivors...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Space shuttle breaks apart over Texas; seven astronauts killed.