Space Shuttle Columbia lost in a storm of history 20 years later

Saturday, Feb. 1, 2003, that the Space Shuttle Columbia was lost just 15 minutes before it was scheduled to land at Cape Canaveral. It was the 28th mission for the reusable Columbia, which had inaugurated the shuttle program in 1981

. “Some of the orange foam insulation on that tank apparently broke off and hit the left wing of the orbiter on the edge of its leading-edge they call it,” Harwood said.was preempted at 9 a.m., and Dave Ross was called in to anchor KIRO Radio’s continuing coverage.

Former KIRO Radio newsman Jim Valley recently became the public information officer for the Washington State Senate Republican Caucus. He was a sophomore in high school when thewas lost in 1986, and he calls that tragedy one of the defining events of the 1980s. Valley says he felt “sort of tragically hopeful” about the events in Texas and Florida as they unfolded that morning.

Having lived through the Challenger disaster as a teenager, was Jim Valley particularly aware of the momentousness of the loss of the Columbia?

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