{"id":1198991,"date":"2023-02-01T15:41:43","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T21:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1198991"},"modified":"2023-02-02T16:51:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T22:51:15","slug":"remembering-the-shuttle-columbia-20-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1198991","title":{"rendered":"Remembering the shuttle Columbia 20 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/02\/sc-175x98.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"98\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-1198999\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/02\/sc-175x98.png 175w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/02\/sc.png 509w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 175px) 100vw, 175px\" \/>EAST TEXAS (KRLD) &#8211; A grim anniversary in the northeastern Texas skies.  Wednesday marked 20 years since the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated over North and East Texas as it made its way toward a planned landing in Florida. The shuttle never made it, coming apart at 9 a.m. on February 1, 2003. Reports came in to East Texas law enforcement offices telling of an explosion and falling debris. Remains of the seven astronauts were recovered along a line from south of Hemphill to South Toledo Bend, near the Sabine River on the Texas-Louisiana line. Investigators determined the spacecraft&#8217;s heat shield was damaged by debris on launch 16 days earlier. Upon re-entry that day, heat from the atmosphere penetrated to the shuttle&#8217;s frame, causing a catastrophic failure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST TEXAS (KRLD) &#8211; A grim anniversary in the northeastern Texas skies. Wednesday marked 20 years since the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated over North and East Texas as it made its way toward a planned landing in Florida. The shuttle never made it, coming apart at 9 a.m. on February 1, 2003. Reports came in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1198991\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Remembering the shuttle Columbia 20 years later<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1199002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/02\/sc-175x98.png","fifu_image_alt":"Remembering the shuttle Columbia 20 years later","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1198991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 19:39:38","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2023\/02\/sc-175x98.png","fifu_image_alt":"Remembering the shuttle Columbia 20 years later","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1198991"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1199000,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1198991\/revisions\/1199000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1199002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1198991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1198991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1198991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}