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March 19, 2009 “Just as they were when Rachel Carson published Silent Spring nearly 50 years ago, birds today are a bellwether of the health of land, water and ecosystems,” Salazar said. “From shorebirds in New England to warblers in Michigan to songbirds in Hawaii, we are seeing disturbing downward population trends that should set off environmental alarm bells. We |
must work together now to ensure we never hear the deafening silence in our forests, fields and backyards that Rachel Carson warned us about.” Tufted puffin in Alaska. Photo by: Rhett A. Butler. “These results emphasize that investment in wetlands conservation has paid huge dividends,” said Kenneth Rosenberg, director of Conservation Science at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Despite the |
success stories, the overall trend is a nation-wide decline in birds. Even once abundant birds like the northern bobwhite and the marbled murrelet have declined significantly. The report found that in the past 40 years birds dependent on US oceans have declined 39 percent, grassland birds have fallen 40 percent, and birds in aridlands are down 30 percent. “While some |
bird species are holding their own, many once common species are declining sharply in population. Habitat availability and quality is the key to healthy, thriving bird populations,” said Dave Mehlman of The Nature Conservancy. Of all the US States, Hawaii is facing the most extreme crisis in bird populations. Island birds across the world have gone extinct in startling numbers, |
and Hawaii is no exception. Out of 13 bird species that are considered possibly extinct in the US, nine of them are from Hawaii. “Habitats such as those in Hawaii are on the verge of losing entire suites of unique bird species,” said Dr. David Pashley, American Bird Conservancy’s Vice President for Conservation Programs. “In addition to habitat loss, birds |
also face many other man-made threats such as pesticides, predation by cats, and collisions with windows, towers and buildings. By solving these challenges we can preserve a growing economic engine – the popular pastime of birdwatching that involves millions of Americans – and improve our quality of life.” The US is not unique in its bird declines. Studies have shown |
bird populations falling worldwide. In a July 2008 interview with renowned bird expert Dr. Cagan H. Sekercioglu, he told Mongabay.com: "I estimate that about 15% of world's 10,000 bird species will go extinct or be committed to extinction by 2100 with business as usual. Keep in mind that birds are among the least threatened of any major group of organisms |
(e.g. plants, mammals, amphibians, mollusks). Unfortunately, things are getting worse, so this number is likely to be higher, as many as 2 out of 5 bird species." Surveys of birds used in the US report were conducted by the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the US Geological Survey, including the annual Breeding Bird Survey, and the volunteers through programs like |
the National Audubon Society’s Christmas Bird Count. Seeking out the world’s rarest and most endangered birds (02/02/2009) For an evolutionary biologist there is no conservation group whose work is more exciting than EDGE, a program developed by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). Unique in the conservation world, EDGE chooses the species to focus on based on a combination of |
their threat of extinction and evolutionary distinctness. Katrina Fellerman, an evolutionary biologist herself and the EDGE birds’ coordinator, describes the organization as one that focuses on species, which “to put it bluntly, if lost, there would be nothing like them left in the world today”. Explaining further Fellerman says “We use evolutionary distinctiveness (ED) as a species-specific measure of the |
from Sterling to look at two of his projects. This self-described introvert speaks enthusiastically about his job. “Ducks, ducks, ducks – that’s what I love!” says Filsinger, grinning broadly. Filsinger is a wildlife biologist with the Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. He works with private landowners to set aside land and create |
attractive habitat for imperiled species. Specifically, he designs wetlands to attract waterfowl. Partners for Fish and Wildlife is a successful program that has been around since 1987. Landowners, including farmers and ranchers, form partnerships with the program because they reap a variety of benefits from it. Nonprofit organizations such as Ducks Unlimited, Audubon and the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory are |
also partners. Collaboration between the federal government and private landowners is essential to preserving habitat and species, as 73 percent of the country’s land is privately owned, and most wildlife lives on that land. The end of migrations: wildlife's greatest spectacle is critically endangered (07/28/2008) If we could turn back the clock about 200 years, one could watch as millions |
of whales swam along their migration routes. Around 150 years ago, one could witness bison filling the vast America prairie or a billion passenger pigeons blotting out the sky for days. Only a few decades back and a million saiga antelope could be seen crossing the plains of Asia. Birds face higher risk of extinction than conventionally thought (07/14/2008) Birds |
may face higher risk of extinction than conventionally thought, says a bird ecology and conservation expert from Stanford University. Dr. Cagan H. Sekercioglu, a senior research scientist at Stanford and head of the world's largest tropical bird radio tracking project, estimates that 15 percent of world's 10,000 bird species will go extinct or be committed to extinction by 2100 if |
necessary conservation measures are not taken. While birds are one of the least threatened of any major group of organisms, Sekercioglu believes that worst-case climate change, habitat loss, and other factors could conspire to double this proportion by the end of the century. As dire as this sounds, Sekercioglu says that many threatened birds are rarer than we think and |
nearly 80 percent of land birds predicted to go extinct from climate change are not currently considered threatened with extinction, suggesting that species loss may be far worse than previously imagined. At particular risk are marine species and specialists in mountain habitats. Mercury from coal-burning hurts the common loon (03/04/2008) A long-term study by the Wildlife conservation Society, the BioDiversity |
Research Institute, and other organizations has found and confirmed that environmental mercury--much of which comes from human-generated emissions--is impacting both the health and reproductive success of common loons in the Northeast. |
What do you get when you plot the genetic fingerprints of more than 1000 Europeans on a grid? An image that looks surprisingly like a map of Europe. The findings reveal that our DNA contains a sort of global positioning |
system, which researchers can use to pinpoint where in the world both we and our relatives came from. Humans have been obsessed with their ancestry for millennia, yet it wasn't until the advent of DNA sequencing that scientists had the |
hard data to begin tracing origins to various parts of the globe. Merely comparing a few sections of DNA gives only a rough, continent-scale idea of a person's heritage, however, and scientists have struggled to glean a more detailed genetic |
profile. Enter single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs). Each genome contains millions of these tiny variations, and because they differ from person to person, they provide scientists with a way to tell one person's DNA from another's. Over the past decade, SNPs |
have shed new light on the genetic risk factors for common illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease--and they've even helped federal investigators hone in on a suspect in the anthrax case (ScienceNOW, 12 August). Population geneticist John Novembre of |
the University of California, Los Angeles, had a hunch that SNPs would be valuable for tracing ancestry as well. He and colleagues compared 500,000 SNP differences among 1387 Europeans. To ensure that the people they examined had their roots firmly |
set in a certain region, the team looked at individuals whose grandparents hailed from the same region as they did. The scientists then employed a statistical technique known as principle component analysis, which allows large amounts of data with multiple |
variables to be condensed onto a two-dimensional space. Individual points were marked as two-letter abbreviations corresponding to the region of Europe to which each subject claimed ancestry (see image). The result was a map of Europe-- fuzzy, but unmistakable. "I |
couldn't believe the picture was so clear," says Carlos Bustamante, senior author and statistical geneticist at Cornell University. "I, for one, fell off my chair." Italy and Spain clearly had their own cluster of genetically similar individuals, for example, and |
there were even distinctions between French-, German-, and Italian- speaking populations within Switzerland. The results make sense, says Bustamante. Because people in a region are more likely to marry and mate with each other--a factor that may be largely due |
to shared language--that gene pool will evolve as a separate cluster that corresponds to a place on the globe, he explains. "You don't randomly mate within Europe. ... If you live in Strait of Gibraltar, you're more likely to marry |
someone in Spain versus someone in Moscow." The findings, published online this week in Nature, have practical uses. The researchers believe that with more SNP data, they'll be able to create an even more detailed "genography" map; that will allow |
individuals armed with their own genetic fingerprint to pinpoint exactly where their families originated. Rather than just knowing that your family came from Italy, Bustamante notes, you could hone in on the specific county or village your kin hailed from. |
Forensics could get a boost from the findings as well: DNA from hair or blood could be used to reveal the precise ethnic background of a victim or suspect, for example. Experts praise what they call a visually stunning map. |
Scientists have suspected that people's genes were linked to their geography, says Mattias Jakobsson, a population geneticist at Uppsala University in Sweden, but "this level of detail has not been demonstrated before--this paper shows some nice, strong results." Still, although |
the data shows clear genetic distinctions between Europeans, Paolo Menozzi, an evolutionary geneticist at the University of Parma in Italy, cautions that, overall, Europeans' genetics do not vary vastly from country to country. On the whole, their genes are much |
Jun 28 2012 An identity thief is somebody who obtains some piece of your sensitive info, like your Social Security quantity, date of birth, address, and telephone quantity, and uses it without your knowledge to commit fraud or theft. How Identity Thieves Get Your Information Skilled identity thieves use a variety of procedures to achieve access to your individual information and facts. By way |
brand new credit card account, making use of your name, date of birth, and Social Security quantity. Once they don’t spend the bills, the delinquent account is reported on your credit report. – modify the mailing address on your credit card account. The imposter then runs up charges on the account. Since the bills are becoming sent towards the new address, it could take |
or to prevent eviction – give your name towards the police in the course of an arrest. If they are released and do not show up for their court date, an arrest warrant could possibly be issued in your name. Managing your individual data is key to minimizing your threat of becoming a victim of identity theft. Maintain an eye on your purse or |
wallet, and hold them in a secure place at all times. Don’t carry your Social Security card. Don’t share your private data with random folks you don’t know. Identity thieves are genuinely very good liars, and could pretend to be from banks, World wide web service providers, or perhaps government agencies to get you to reveal identifying information and facts. Read the statements from |
your bank and credit accounts and look for unusual charges or suspicious activity. Report any issues for your bank and creditors ideal away. Tear up or shred your charge receipts, checks and bank statements, expired charge cards, and any other documents with private information prior to you put them inside the trash. Ways to Tell If you’re a Victim of Identity Theft Monitor the |
balances of one’s economic accounts. Appear for unexplained charges or withdrawals. Other indications of identity theft is often: – failing to receive bills or other mail signaling an address modify by the identity thief; – receiving credit cards for which you did not apply; – denial of credit for no apparent cause; or – receiving calls from debt collectors or firms about merchandise or |
Popular Aboriginal legendary tales have been one of the most significant ways in which Aboriginality has been constructed in Australia, but they have not received much attention prior to this paper. Beginning with missionary accounts of Baiame, a deity associated |
with Gamilaraay (Kamilaroi) and Wiradhuri (Wiradjuri) speaking peoples of colonial Australia, the author examines the way in which the theme of the Great Spirit or Baiame is developed in popular mythology. The focus is placed on two key writers: K. |
Langloh Parker and David Unaipon. It is argued that the popular discourse of “The Land of Byamee” reflected the political constraints of the assimilation era. Journal of Religious History Vol. 22, Issue 2, p. 200-218 |
Vivek K. Arora & Alvaro Montenegro. Nature Geoscience (2011) doi:10.1038/ngeo1182 Published online 19 June 2011 Afforestation, the conversion of croplands or marginal lands into forests, results in the sequestration of carbon. As a result, afforestation is considered one of the key climate-change mitigation strategies available to governments by the United |
Nations1. However, forests are also less reflective than croplands, and the absorption of incoming solar radiation is greater over afforested areas. Afforestation can therefore result in net climate warming, particularly at high latitudes2, 3, 4, 5. Here, we use a comprehensive Earth system model to assess the climate-change mitigation potential |
of five afforestation scenarios, with afforestation carried out gradually over a 50-year period. Complete (100%) and partial (50%) afforestation of the area occupied at present by crops leads to a reduced warming of around 0.45 and 0.25 °C respectively, during the period 2081–2100. Temperature benefits associated with more realistic global |
afforestation efforts, where less than 50% of cropland is converted, are expected to be even smaller, indicating that afforestation is not a substitute for reduced greenhouse-gas emissions. We also show that warming reductions per unit afforested area are around three times higher in the tropics than in the boreal and |
Offering New HOPE in the Balance Of Security and Civil Liberties Data analytics gives law enforcement and intelligence agencies powerful tools that still protect privacy and civil liberties December 2, 2008 We've all seen the movies and television shows where |
police detectives and anti-terrorist teams plug a suspect's name into a computer and receive all the relevant data they need to stop a crime or attack before it happens. But the reality of law enforcement and intelligence work is not |
nearly as simple as these Hollywood fantasies appear. In a world that is drowning in data, where everyone from border guards to supermarket checkouts gather personal information, finding the right facts in thousands of disparate databases is no small feat. |
For many people, even the possibility of such a search raises concerns that personal privacy and civil liberties could get lost even if the right information is found. Into this delicate challenge comes DI-HOPE-KD, a suite of knowledge discovery tools |
developed at Rutgers University under the leadership of William M. Pottenger, a research professor of computer science. Short for Distributed Interactive Higher-Order Privacy-Enhancing Knowledge Discovery, DI-HOPE-KD can take diverse sources of data, be they databases, news reports, or text documents |
and find intuitive associations, connections and links between them. Law enforcement agencies have been doing this type of connect-the-dots work for decades, but it often requires weeks and sometimes months of painstaking formatting and reviewing by human eyes before useful |
data is discovered. By looking for higher-order links--links that connect more than two dots--DI-HOPE-KD can do the same job in minutes and sometimes even seconds, saving a great deal of time and producing more useful and accurate information than traditional |
searches. In an interview with the National Science Foundation, which is helping to fund the development of DI-HOPE-KD, Pottenger describes the work he and his team are doing to develop interactive privacy-enhancing characteristics, including those used in DI-HOPE-KD. The framework |
is designed, Pottenger says, to keep a "human in the loop," that is, it depends on human intervention at several critical junctures, allowing privacy and other concerns to be more easily factored in as discovery progresses. According to Pottenger, DI-HOPE-KD |
also allows different agencies and databases to collaborate and share information in an intuitive way without sharing all the specifics of that information. He gives the real-life example of a case where a framework like DI-HOPE-KD can tell investigators that |
a higher order link exists between a pseudoephedrine manufacturer in one town, a drug-dealing broker in another and an illicit meth lab in a third without revealing the details of the connection. The investigators can then use other traditional means, |
including warrants and court orders, to pin down the nature of the connection and make arrests. Pottenger believes there are far-reaching applications for this type of intuitive, yet privacy-enhancing data search, sharing and knowledge discovery technology in fields such as |
healthcare and retailing as well as in everyday tasks of information search and sharing. He is also the CEO of Intuidex, a startup company working to commercialize DI-HOPE-KD, and is already collaborating with the Port Authority of New York and |
New Jersey and others to demonstrate the value of the technology in the field. Rutgers University New Brunswick #0712139 III: Visual Analytics for Steering Large-Scale Distributed Data Mining Applications #0534276 Collaborative Knowledge Discovery in Digital Government Data Using Distributed Higher-Order |
Celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and Emancipation Proclamation with a fascinating program about Mary Bowser, a Union spy who posed as a slave in the Confederate White House. Lois Leveen, author of THE SECRETS OF MARY BOWSER (HarperCollins/William Morrow 2012) will appear at the African American Museum and Library in Oakland (AAMLO) on Saturday, July 28 at |
2pm. Ms. Leveen, an award-winning author, will share insights about America's most contested history. "Thanks in large part to the film Glory, the contributions of black soldiers during the Civil War have become well known. Now we can learn about the incredible role one African American woman played in the war - a role that took her to the very |
heart of the Confederacy," says Leveen, who recently published new historical findings about Bowser in The New York Times. Leveen adds: "Audiences around the country have been amazed to learn about [Mary Boswer's] espionage. We all have causes we care about - but what would it mean to make the kind of choices Bowser made, and to live with violence, |
displacement, and danger as a result?" The AAMLO program will provide Bay Area residents an opportunity to reflect on how to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the war. Because the 100th anniversary of the Civil War coincided with the Civil Rights movement, there were some highly contentious differences about how to remember the root causes of the war, especially slavery. |
Fifty years later, Americans are more committed to understanding African American history as part of our national history, and to celebrate the roles blacks played in ending slavery. About Lois Leveen: Award-winning author Lois Leveen earned degrees in history and literature from Harvard, the University of Southern California, and UCLA, and taught at UCLA and at Reed College. She is |
a regular contributer to Disunion, the New York Times coverage of the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, and gives talks about American history and social justice throughout the country. Her novel, THE SECRETS OF MARY BOWSER, incorporates extensive historical research to give voice to this courageous but little-known spy. |
Some fishing gear is so devastating to marine wildlife that the nations of the world agree they should not be used. Large drift gillnets fall into this category, and the United Nations banned their use on the high seas in 1991. Sadly, smaller legal drift gillnets in United States waters have many unintended victims, among them endangered and threatened sea turtles. Indeed, like us, |
a sea turtle entangled underwater in a gillnet can drown in just minutes. No wonder some people call these gillnets "curtains of death." All drift gillnets - even "smaller" legal ones - are made of plastic mesh panels that stretch for hundreds of yards, and are allowed to drift at sea for long periods of time, capturing anything that comes their way. Because of |
the non-selective manner in which they work, this is one of the most wasteful and dirty ways to catch fish. The U.S. has closed or limited use of drift nets in specific areas in federal waters. This has proven to be effective in protecting sea turtles. Take, for example, a swordfish fishery along the California and Oregon coast. For a 3-month period every year |
since 2001, drift gillnets have been banned north of Point Conception, California. No leatherback sea turtles have been reported killed in drift gillnets since the time and area closure was enacted. Sea turtles aren't the only animals affected. Since 2002, 64 dolphins, whales, seals and sea lions have been killed by the drift gillnet fishery. Additionally, seabirds including Northern fulmars and Cassin's auklet have |
been injured or killed. Fish populations themselves are seriously harmed when too many of the wrong fish are caught in this indiscriminate way. But incredibly, earlier this month the government agency in charge of setting the rules for the commercial fishing industry in the Pacific voted to allow drift gillnets to be used in that protected area along the California and Oregon coastline. The |
proposed exemption to the existing rules would allow as many as two thirds of the 36 vessels in the drift gillnet fishery into previously closed areas. This decision is unscientific and short-sighted. You and I don't want these magnificent creatures to disappear. Oceana's Stop Dirtyfishing Campaign is working to restore these essential protections for sea turtles and other ocean wildlife threatened by drift gillnets. |
Stay tuned...Oceana will be working with the Pacific Fishery Management Council and NOAA Fisheries to find a solution to this destructive fishery. - What Do Historic CO2 Levels Mean for the Oceans? Posted Tue, May 14, 2013 - U.S. Coast Guard Captures Illegal Fishermen in Texas Posted Tue, May 14, 2013 - Victory! Delaware Becomes Seventh State in U.S. to Ban Shark Fin Trade! |
Visio gets you started making flow charts, floor plans, timelines, network diagrams, and many other kinds of drawings. Each type has templates to get you going quickly, each with its own set of pre-made shapes. Just drag the shapes onto the drawing page and connect them together to make professional-looking diagrams. When you finish your drawing, you can save it in many different formats |
so you can use it to illustrate reports, or as a reference file in PDF format, or as an updatable web page. For more background about how Visio works, see A beginner's guide to Visio and Getting started with Visio. Create a new diagram - Start Visio. Right away, you’ll see templates you can use to start your diagram. - Double-click a template to |
start using it and start adding shapes to it. Add a shape Along the side of the drawing page is a panel, or window, named Shapes. The Shapes window contains one or more Stencils, or sets of shapes, commonly used in the type of drawing you’re creating. - In the Shapes window, click and hold the shape that you want. - Drag the shape |
onto the diagram page. For more about how to use shapes and stencils, see Use the Shapes window to organize and find shapes. In some diagrams, like flowcharts, the shapes need to be connected so it’s easy to follow the path from shape to shape. The quickest way to connect shapes is with the AutoConnect tool. - Hold the pointer over one of the |
shapes that you want to connect. - When the AutoConnect arrows appear, drag one of them to the center of the other shape. A connector appears between the two shapes. Also, as you add shapes, use the AutoConnect arrows to instantly connect them. - Drag the new shape onto your drawing and hold it on top of the shape you want to connect it |
to, until the AutoConnect arrows appear. - Drop the new shape on the AutoConnect arrow on the side where you want the shapes to connect. The new shape appears on the drawing, connected to the other one. For more about AutoConnect, see Connect shapes by using AutoConnect or the Connector tool. Add text to shapes or to the page - Select a shape. - |
Type your text. When you start typing, Visio switches the selected shape to text editing mode. To add another line of text, press Enter. - Click an empty area of the page, or press Esc when you’re finished. Add text to the page - Click Home and then click the Text tool . - Click an empty area of the page. A text box |
appears. - Type your text. - Click Home and then click Pointer Tool to stop using the Text tool. The text box now has the characteristics of other shapes. You can select it and type to change the text, you can drag it to another part of the page, and you can format the text by using the Font and Paragraph groups on the |
Home tab. For more details about text, see Add, edit, move, or rotate text on shapes and Add text to a page. Polish your diagram design Give your diagram a professional look by adding a background, a decorative title and border, colors, and effects. Give your drawing a background - Click Design and then click Backgrounds. - Click a background. Your diagram gets a |
new background page (named VBackground-1 by default), which you can see in the page tabs along the bottom of the diagramming area. Apply a border or title - Click Design > Borders & Titles and click the title style that you want. - Click a title style. The title and border appear on the background page. - At the bottom of the diagramming area, |
click the VBackground-1 tab. - Click the title text. The entire border is selected, but when you start typing it changes the title text. - Type your title. - To edit other text in the border, first select the entire border, and then click the text you want to change and start typing. Apply a unified color scheme and other formatting effects Once you |
have the basic elements in place, you can change the overall look and colors quickly by selecting a theme. - On the Design tab, hold your pointer over the various themes. The page takes the colors of the theme you’re pointing to, so you get a preview. To see other available themes, click More . - Click the theme you want to apply to |
the diagram. Save a diagram If the diagram has been saved before, just click Save in the Quick Access Toolbar. If you want to save the diagram in a different place or with a different name, use Save As: - Click File and then click Save As. - Under Save As, click where you want to save the diagram – for example, on your |
computer, online or on SkyDrive. Then click the folder that you want to save it in, or click Browse to find the folder that you want. - If you want, in the Save As dialog box, give the diagram a different name in the File name box. - Click Save. Save as an image file, PDF, or other format - Click File and then |
click Save As. - Under Save As, click where you want to save the diagram. - In the Save As dialog box, open the Save as type drop-down list. - Click the format you want. Some example formats include: - Standard image file including JPG, PNG, and BMP formats. - Web page in HTM format. Image files and other resource files are saved in |
a subfolder of the location where you save the HTM file. - PDF or XPS file - AutoCAD drawing in DWG or DXF format. Print your diagram - Click the File tab. - In the side bar, click Print. - Select the printer and other settings, and then click Print. Beyond the basics Go the beyond the basics with your diagrams by editing shapes, |
Orok belongs to the Northern branch of the Manchu-Tungus (Tungusic) languages. It is spoken by about 64 people in the Poronaysky and Nogliksky Administrative Divisions of Sakhalin Island in the |
Russian Federation. There are also some Oroks who live on Hokkaido island in Japan and maybe three of them speak Orok. Orok is used as an everyday language by some |
members of the older generation of Orok people, and is taught in one school on Sakhalin. Since 2007 Orok has been written with a version of the Cyrillic alphabet, and |
an Orok primer has been published. A Japanese linguist, Professor Jiro Ikegami, developed the written form of Orok. Чипāли гуруннē балӡичи гэвумэ, омотто м нэ мөрөнӡи, м нэ доронӡи. Нōчи |
идэлу, иркалу, м нэ м нӡи нāдактаӈачи бūчи. All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act |
The U.S. space shuttle Columbia, then the oldest in the nation's fleet of shuttles, lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Jan. 16, 2003. As was common for launches in the shuttle era, onlookers watched the shuttle shoot into the sky, these standing on a sand dune near the space center. It was the shuttle's 28th flight. As the |
shuttle was rocketing toward space, a NASA video camera captured this image of an object, circled in red here, falling from the shuttle. Another video image, taken by a camera on the shuttle, showed the damage. A later independent report found top NASA officials bungled the analysis of whether what turned out to have been foam that peeled away from the orbiter's external fuel |
tank was capable of causing serious… After their safe arrival in space, the members of the flight crew continued their work. They were, from left, Michael Anderson, William McCool, David M. Brown, Ilan Ramon, Laurel Clark and Kalpana Chawla, with Rick Husband floating in front. An unidentified member of the crew took this photo of a sunrise while in orbit. The shuttle returned to |
the atmosphere on Feb. 1, 2003. Some crash investigators say this image, taken by a U.S. research laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M., shows damage to the shuttle's left wing. Columbia disintegrated during re-entry after superheated gases melted away its left wing. All seven crew members on board were killed. NASA personnel at headquarters in Washington, D.C., watched NASA television as NASA Administrator |
Sean O'Keefe spoke after the accident. Debris was scattered over hundreds of miles. Fires photographed near Dallas that Saturday were believed to have been started by debris. Employees at United Space Alliance, a contractor that handled a host of shuttle activities for the U.S. government, consoled each other at the vehicle-assembly building at Kennedy Space Center after hearing the news. As the recovery process |
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