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NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Pat Duggins of Alabama Public Radio about the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy, which they both covered 20 years ago next week.

Dozens gathered around a memorial at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, a week before the 20th anniversary of the Columbia disaster.

Columbia disaster, breakup of the U.S. space shuttle orbiter Columbia on February 1, 2003, that claimed the lives of all seven astronauts on board just minutes before it was to land at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Columbia, which had made the shuttle program’s first flight into space in 1981, lifted off for its 28th mission, STS-107, on January 16, 2003. STS-107 was a flight dedicated to various experiments that required a microgravity environment. The crew comprised commander Rick Husband; pilot William McCool; mission specialists Michael Anderson, David Brown, Kalpana Chawla, and ...

It has been nearly 20 years since the seven crew aboard Space Shuttle Columbia didn’t make it home, and NASA leaders will gather today at Kennedy Space Center, Washington D.C. and other locations to commemorate their lives as well as those from Space Shuttle Challenger and Apollo 1 on the Day of Remembrance.

It has been nearly 20 years since the seven crew aboard Space Shuttle Columbia didn’t make it home, and NASA leaders gathered today to commemorate their lives as well as those from Space Shuttle Challenger and Apollo 1 on the Day of Remembrance.