What it was like to lose family in the Columbia space shuttle crash
It’s one of the worst space disasters in history – 21 years on, a BBC series meets the astronauts’ families to chart the painful details
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It’s one of the worst space disasters in history – 21 years on, a BBC series meets the astronauts’ families to chart the painful details
Dozens of teachers attend school board meeting in solidarity for union contract.
The first sign was the countdown clock. On Feb 1 2003, nine-year-old Kaycee Anderson was in the crowded bleachers by Florida’s Kennedy Space Centre, watching the seconds tick down towards zero – then start climbing back up again. The perfectly blue sky seemed to highlight the absence of the Columbia space shuttle, due to return to Earth that Saturday morning with her father, Mike, and the six other astronauts on board. Instead of a sonic boom and the orbiter approaching, all of a sudden, “people
The city of Tacoma wants to crack down on the issue of BIPOC and low-income families forced from their homes due to gentrification.
A fifth person has been found dead in Lady Bird Lake within a year’s span.