Military satellites set to help chart shuttle's debris field

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - Military satellites could help trace the field of debris left by the Space Shuttle Columbia as it broke up over Texas Feb. 1, killing all seven astronauts, a spokesman for U.S. Northern Command said Feb. 3. There have been "cooperative efforts ... to assist in charting the...

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