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Feb 1, 2003 - I went to watch the Space Shuttle Columbia re-entry over Northern California before dawn 17 years ago today. Unfortunately I became an eyewitness to disaster. #ColumbiaDisaster #STS107 #NASA #space #history #TDIH 1/20
I had seen 2 pre-dawn shuttle re-entries before. They were bright like a highway flare as the orbiter crossed the sky in less than 10 minutes. Watched from my backyard in San Jose under clear skies those times. #ColumbiaDisaster #STS107 #NASA #space #history 2/20
This time (Feb 1, 2003) there was thick fog so I couldn't just watch the shuttle re-entry from home. I planned ahead and drove to a mountaintop. This became the reason why San Jose CA was the only place west of Texas where Columbia eyewitnesses met each other that morning. 3/20
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