Columbia update
New information from Columbia's flight data recorder shows that the overheating of the left wing began sooner than previously known, meaning that the breach apparently already existed prior to re-entry.
I read an interesting article in The Washington Post that pointed out that the flight data recorder had already been missed once in a search of that area, but that the search team was sent back out because it was determined that area was where the box should have landed. That's just pretty darned impressive.

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