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Ty S' 1 $150 Lafayette West Lafayette Indiana 8 Sports bi 1 1 1' i 1 av Journal and Courier 6 Boilers in first place after OT win in Iowa 80 77 4 SUNDAY ebruary 2 2003 tf Weather A2 4742 Cloudy today rain possible tonight wwwjconlinecom vy eBBIm w' 9 a note INSIDE Michael Anderson David Brown Ilan Ramon 4 1 0 III ID I a I I OS i By The Associated Press 1 I I i xg V4 1 INSIDE 9 am SOURCES: Associated Press NASA ESRI AP More inside OUR PHONES A By The Associated Press By The Associated Press ll4090 3 I names the stars also knows the names of the seven souls we mourn Bush said his eyes glistening crew of the shuttle Columbia did not return safely to Earth but we can pray they are safely The search for the cause be gan immediately One focus: possible damage to 8:53 am 1 Mission Control loses temperature readings from hydraulic system in left wing Orbiter breaks Into pieces A special report exam ining possible war in Iraq will not appear in paper It was replaced with cover age of the Columbia space shuttle tragedy The package on Iraq will be printed at a later date Circulation 423 2472 Classified 423 551 2 Newsroom 420 5239 A Gannett Newspaper Vol 85 No 33 ederated Publications PageA5 Greater Lafayette residents with ties to the space program feel pain of tragedy What happens during routine landings President speech to the country Page A8 Editorial: Tragedy jars us back to dangerous reality of space flight 9 am Mission Control loses contact with Columbia 8:58 am Mission Control loses temperature signals drop in temperature sensors in left main landing gear 8:15 am Advice E3 Business I B9 Campus ZC6 Classified Communities C3 Couples E4 Crossword E8 DeathsC2 Life El Local C1 LotteriesA2 Movies E7 Nation A3 Opinion A8 9 Real Estate Records C8 9 Region C4 Sports B1 StateC7 WeatherA2 White County C5 Recycled gown keep that wedding dress in the closet Give somebody else a chance to wear it down the aisle by selling it through eBrides The Internet business is the creation of a pair of Purdue graduates LIEEl Residents in Arkansas Louisiana and Texas report loud boom overhead 'X 1'' 1 All times are EST final descent ends in disaster Space shuttle Columbia broke apart over Texas one hour into its descent Saturday approximately 40 miles above ground and traveling at 12500 mph The orbiter was scheduled to land in lorida at John Kennedy Space Center at 9:16 am EST By John TerhuneJournal and Courier BARRETT CALDWELL a Purdue University pro fessor and director of the Indiana Spacecraft Consortium talks on Saturday about the Co See PURDUE' Page A4 lumbia space shuttle disaster By Max Showalter and Phillip iorini Journal and Courier Despite the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia Barrett Caldwell is holding hard and fast to a dream he has had for more than 30 years The associate professor of industrial engi neering at Purdue University also serves as director of the Indiana Space Grant Consor tium an organization dedicated to furthering all aspects of space exploration wanted to be an astronaut since Caldwell 40 said Saturday afternoon outside his office in civil engineering build ing you offered me a flight suit right now Td say in an instant 1 was never an assumption this is a sdfe thing to do I wanted to be an astronautbecause a part of me Never because it was cool or for glory or xXAll across the Ptirdue campus reaction was emotional with a resolve from scientists and students alike Most agreed that space travel comes with as many questions as answers and that find 'ing out why Columbia disintegrated over Texas Saturday morning should simply reignite the country commitment to sci ence and space Rick Husband Purdue professors consider causes keep space dreams Scheduledpcnngeite jpace Center Page A2 Investigation looks for answers: Page A3 Search crews fan out across the Texas town of Nacogdoches and surrounding region Oldest orbiter in the shuttle fleet was last overhauled in 1999 Profiles of the crew Kalpana Chawla 7 shuttle astronauts "killed during re entry By Marcia Dunn and Pam Easton The Associated Press High over Texas and just short of home space shuttle Columbia fell to pieces Satur day raining debris over hun dreds of miles of countryside Seven astronauts perished The catastrophe occurred 39 miles above the Earth in the last 16 minutes of the 16 day mission as the spaceship re entered the atmosphere and glided in for a landing in lorida In its horror and in its backdrop of a crystal blue sky the day echoed one almost exactly 17 years before when the Challenger exploded Columbia is said Saturday over Tyler Texas Amateur photographer Dr' Scott Eiebjermari Shbt pn Saturday killing all seven astronauts just minutes before they were due to I homos New YeoRi New homgi We moke it easy to find your new home wwwdeluxehomesnet Authorities In counties in Texas and Louisiana reported finding debris L2 NOTE: Drawing is schematic Laurel Clark Sectional No 2 Harrison wrestlers claimed their second straight 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