03 fevereiro 2003

CONTAMINANTES
Lost: Space Shuttle Columbia: Shuttle disintegrates, 7 astronauts dead
Columbia Loss FAQ v1.0: a basic information source for those seeking news on the loss of the Space Shuttle "Columbia" and its crew on 2/1/03
Online Space Shuttle Columbia Crash Coverage: cover snapshots from a sampling of national, Florida and Texas sites taken Feb. 1, about 12 hours after crash
Photos show odd images near shuttle: A San Francisco amateur astronomer who photographs the space shuttles whenever their orbits carry them over the Bay Area has captured five strange and provocative images of the shuttle Columbia just as it was re-entering the Earth's atmosphere before dawn Saturday.
Images of shuttle in sky tell television viewers what happened before officials: The arresting image of a white streak flashing across the sky then breaking into several pieces -- repeated over and over -- told television viewers what happened to the space shuttle Columbia before any official government word.
Space Shuttle Tragedy photos
The Space Shuttle Must Be Stopped: It's costly, outmoded, impractical and, as we've learned again, deadly
Moon missions: Here are some points of view you won't get from television coverage of the Columbia disaster.
Bush to Propose Budget Increase for NASA: President Bush will propose a nearly $470 million boost in NASA's budget for fiscal 2004, an administration official said on Sunday, promising investigators would look into whether past cutbacks played any part in the space shuttle Columbia disaster.
Iraqis Call Shuttle Disaster God's Vengeance: Immediate popular reaction in Baghdad on Saturday to the loss of the U.S. space shuttle Columbia and its seven-member crew - including the first Israeli in space - was that it was God's retribution. "We are happy that it broke up," government employee Abdul Jabbar al-Quraishi said.
[April 1980] Beam Me Out Of This Death Trap, Scotty: 5... 4... 3... 2... 1... Goodbye, Columbia