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Wednesday, August 03, 2011


Here's an upside to the record setting drought in Texas. The lakes are low enough that debris from the Columbia disaster in 2003 are finally during up in an East Texas lake.
A piece of debris from NASA's space shuttle Columbia has been discovered in Texas, eight years after the 2003 disaster that destroyed the spacecraft and killed its seven-astronaut crew during re-entry, NASA officials confirmed today (Aug. 2).

The debris was discovered last week in eastern Texas. It is a round aluminum power reactant storage and distribution tank from Columbia, which disintegrated over Texas as it re-entered Earth's atmosphere near the end of a 16-day science mission.

The tank was discovered in an exposed area of Lake Nacogdoches, in Nacogdoches, Texas, about 160 miles northeast of Houston.
Funny how some things turn out. I'm sure NASA gave up on looking for their tank by now. Not like the drought is solving any unsolved crimes.



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