Cherokee County, Texas USA, Feb 2, 2003: Searcher armed with GPS data-gathering equipment holds a piece of debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia that landed in east Texas after exploding in the skies over north central Texas early Monday morning while returning from space. All seven astronauts on board were killed in the second major shuttle disaster for NASA. ©Bob Daemmrich

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