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Date ___________________
Columbia Disaster
When Dr. Laurel Clark went up in the space shuttle Columbia, she expected it to not only be fun, but to be the experience of a lifetime. Do you think she would still have agreed with her initial thoughts by the time they were ready to come home? Why?
Word List
Astronaut
Atmosphere
Crew
Disaster
Disintegrated
Experiments
Global
Insulation
Investigation
Liftoff
Mission
Orbit
Recovery
Satellite
Shuttle
Space craft
Telescope
Thermal tiles