Spectral Analysis May Offer Columbia Clues
U.S. intelligence agencies operate ships and aircraft designed to analyze the glowing plasma that surrounds foreign spacecraft as they reenter the atmosphere, and this very specialized technology may help provide clues to the destruction of the Columbia space shuttle. Air Force Maj. Gen. (ret.)...
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