A decade ago, 200,000 feet above Steed's driveway in Nacogdoches, the space shuttle Columbia broke apart on re-entry. All seven astronauts aboard died.

Friday, NASA marks the anniversary with tributes to the crew of Columbia and 10 other astronauts lost in the space agency's two previous fatal accidents -- the 1986 explosion that destroyed Columbia's sister ship Challenger, and the launch pad fire that killed Apollo 1's three-man crew in 1967. All three anniversaries fall within a week -- the Apollo fire on January 27, Challenger on January 28 and Columbia on February 1.

[link to www.cnn.com]


Texan Buckeye showed me this link... I wanted to add it to the OP.

"A special exhibition at a Lubbock museum will honor two of the Hub City’s hometown heroes.

The special exhibition entitled “Columbia: Honoring West Texas Heroes Rick Husband and Willie McCool” will be held at the Silent Wings Museum, with assistance from the Texas Tech Southwest Collection."

[link to kfyo.com]