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Plasma Breach Blamed For Shuttle Disaster


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NASA engineers are now almost certain that the space shuttle Columbia was destroyed when super-hot ionised air leaked through a puncture somewhere in the craft. The shuttle was lost with seven astronauts aboard shortly before it was due to land at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on 1 February.

A sharp rise in temperature was detected within the shuttle's left wheel well just before the spacecraft disintegrated high above Texas.

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