Shuttle Investigators Coming To Florida
Pieces Of Columbia Headed For Kennedy Space Center
POSTED: 2:36 p.m. EST February 10, 2003
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Members of the board investigating the
Columbia disaster are planning to be at Cape Canaveral later this
week.
A NASA official said that board members likely will visit the
facility where the shuttle's thermal protection tiles are made when
they come to the Kennedy Space Center later this week. The board
members also will interview NASA managers.
Bruce Buckingham, spokesman at the Kennedy Space Center, said
members of the NASA-appointed board plan to arrive either Wednesday
or Thursday.
They will spend two days at the Kennedy Space Center before
going to the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.
The first of three truckloads of pieces from Columbia also are
expected to arrive at the Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday.
They will be taken to a 50,000 hangar where they will
be assembled in an effort to find out why Columbia disintegrated
over Texas more than a week ago, killing the shuttle's seven crew
members.
The hangar is next to the runway where Columbia was supposed to
have landed Feb. 1.
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