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February 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia Explodes You
will hear a story about the space shuttle Columbia. Listen and put in
the missing words.
The
space shuttle Columbia exploded yesterday
just 16 minutes before it was due to land at the Kennedy Space Centre
in Florida, USA. All seven astronauts on board
.
The craft
had been travelling
a speed
of 2012 kilometres
hour
and was just 64 kilometres
earth
when the accident occurred.
was
returning from a 16
mission
in space. Scientists had
conducting
experiments on cancer cells
spider
behaviour.
President
Bush told
, ‘the
Columbia is lost. There
no survivors.’
The future
of
missions
is uncertain. Meantime three
on the
international space station
scheduled
to be picked up
a shuttle
in March.