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"It felt like the bottom just dropped out from underneath. Everything was floating up. For a moment, you are weightless."

The Columbia disaster occurred on Feb. 1, 2003 when the space shuttle broke apart, killing its entire crew. An investigation led to changes in NASA procedures.

Twenty-four years before Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated during its return to Earth killing all seven astronauts on board, the Sentinel Star wrote about the repair work the brand-new orbiter already needed just days after it rolled off the assembly plant.