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Columbia crew knew their fate

Washington, USA- Probably the space garbage has been the tragedy cause

According to the reconstruction supplied from NASA to Eliezer Wolferman, Israeli Ilan Ramon’s father, the astronaut died in the Columbia’s tragedy, the shuttle crash could have been provoked by a small meteorite or space garbage. A minute before that it was disintegrated on Texas skies, shuttle crew had the knowledge that their fate was marked. The NASA manager Milt Heflin has emphasized that Col...

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Rome, Italy, 02/06/2003 13:45
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