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Saturday, 1 February, 2003, 21:30 GMT

The space shuttle Columbia had been returning from a 16-day mission when it lost contact with controllers.

Nasa said the shuttle was about 200,000 feet up and travelling at 12,500 mph (20,000 km/h) at the time.

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