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Byline: G. Robert Hillman and David Jackson
WASHINGTON _ President Bush consoled grieving families and a stunned nation Saturday on the loss of the space shuttle Columbia and its seven astronauts.
"The Columbia is lost. There are no survivors," the commander-in-chief reported on a day of what he called "terrible news and great sadness."
Yet, in a somber address from the Cabinet Room of the White House, the president reaffirmed the nation's resolve to continue its push into space.
"Mankind is led into the darkness beyond our world by the inspiration of discovery and the longing to understand," he said. " Our journey into space will go on."
Bush had been in his cabin, Aspen Lodge, at the Camp David presidential retreat outside Washington Saturday morning when he first learned of trouble in space. ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Bush speaks for grieving nation.(The Dallas Morning News)