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World Service,14 May 2004,22 mins

Columbia Astronauts

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A report from Wyoming where the 2003 Columbia astronauts went on a wilderness expedition. The programme was recorded in the Wind River Mountain Range of Wyoming, where the seven Space Shuttle Columbia astronauts came to complete a wilderness expedition in the months before their fateful space mission. The crew died when the shuttle re-entered earth's atmosphere following an expedition in February 2003.

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