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'No Surviors' as Shuttle Breaks Apart on Re-Entry

NPR

Published February 1, 2003 at 12:00 AM EST

The space shuttle Columbia shatters minutes before a planned landing in Florida Saturday morning. President Bush tells the nation: "Columbia is lost. There are no survivors." Listen to NPR News.

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