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U.S. GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION
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Calendar No. 666
110TH CONGRESS REPORT
2d Session SENATE 110-314
COLUMBIA SPACE SHUTTLE MEMORIAL STUDY ACT
APRIL 10, 2008.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. BINGAMAN, from the Committee on Energy and Natural
Resources, submitted the following
REPORT
[To accompany H.R. 807]
The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, to which was
referred the Act (H.R. 807) to direct the Secretary of the Interior
to conduct a special resource study to determine the feasibility and
suitability of establishing a memorial to the space shuttle Colum-
bia in the State of Texas and for its inclusion as a unit of the Na-
tional Park System, having considered the same, reports favorably
thereon without amendment and recommends that the Act do pass.
PURPOSE
The purpose of H.R. 807 is to direct the Secretary of the Interior
to conduct a special resource study to determine the feasibility and
suitability of establishing a memorial to the space shuttle Colum-
bia in the State of Texas and for its inclusion as a unit of the Na-
tional Park System.
BACKGROUND AND NEED
The space shuttle Columbia (STS-107) mission lifted off on Jan-
uary 16, 2003, for a 17-day science mission featuring numerous
microgravity experiments. Upon reentering the atmosphere on Feb-
ruary 1, 2003, the Columbia suffered a catastrophic failure while
flying over Texas, only 15 minutes before the scheduled landing at
the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The cause of the explosion
was later determined to have been caused by a breach that oc-
curred during launch, when falling foam from the external fuel
tank struck the reinforced carbon panels on the underside of the
left wing. The Columbia's explosion killed its seven crew members,
Rick D. Husband, William C. McCool, David Brown, Laurel Blair
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