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...space shuttle Discovery's successful landing in the darkened desert of California's Edwards Air Force Base shortly after 8 a.m. ET ended what turned out to be one of the safest missions in the program's history-and one of the most precarious following the disastrous Columbia re-entry two and a half years...
...mission control inside the Johnson Space Center in Houston, the sense of calm was noticeably higher than that during liftoff nearly a month ago when two minutes into the flight it was learned that foam debris which doomed Columbia had also fallen from Discovery's detachable fuel tank...
...Even the shuttle's flight path home was done for safety, in an eerie sort of way. The path to Florida did not go over the Southeastern United States, where Columbia broke up,but instead was routed via the Gulf of Mexico. The path to Edwards specifically avoided flying over the city of Los Angeles...
...Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews." N. WAYNE HALE, deputy manager of nasa's space-shuttle program, on last week's never-before-attempted spacewalk to repair the shuttle Discovery's underside...
Ruggie’s experience at the U.N. dates back to his days as dean of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, when he occasionally advised and lectured at the organization. He became acquainted with Annan personally because they were both players in New York’s international political scene...