Remembering the Columbia space shuttle disaster

The World

The Columbia disaster directly led to the retirement of the space shuttle fleet in 2011. The World’s Marco Werman spoke with John Logsdon, a former investigator of the Columbia disaster, about how the tragedy changed the course of NASA and space flight’s history. 

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