Recovery team finds shuttle nose cone

A recovery team in Texas has found the nose cone of the space shuttle Columbia after it crashed to Earth on Saturday.

Recovery team finds shuttle nose cone

A recovery team in Texas has found the nose cone of the space shuttle Columbia after it crashed to Earth on Saturday.

All seven astronauts on board were killed when the craft broke up at about 200,000ft, spreading debris for hundreds of miles.

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