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Columbia astronauts cheer in final minutes before disaster
A NASA video from the Columbia mission shows Rick Husband and William McCool joking in the cockpit as heat and flames surround the shuttle during reentry. The four minute recording ends before trouble began and the probe seeks the cause of the left wing breach that doomed seven crew members.
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Columbia
Rick Husband
the Pacific
William McCool
Husband
McCool
Laurel Clark
Scott Altman
NASA
Clark
Florida
Texas
Accident Investigation Board
Michael Anderson
David Brown
Ilan Ramon
The
Space Agency
Air Force
Kalpana Chawla