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Space shuttle breaks apart over Texas; seven astronauts killed.
Byline: Martin Merzer, Phil Long and Seth Borenstein
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. _ Shuttle Columbia, a space 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 mph.
Initial speculation about what caused the accident focused on possible damage to the shuttle's left wing during blastoff 16 days earlier.
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.
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