Debate over risk to shuttle evolved until eve of breakup

Sunday, March 2, 2003

Before the Columbia broke apart, NASA experts debated over five days the risks to the space shuttle, moving from a telephone inquiry about tires to remarkably accurate fears focusing on the left wing.

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