The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster took place on Feb. 1, 2003.
It's hard to believe it has been that long.
It seems like just four or five years ago that I was interviewing astronaut Michael Anderson on the phone before a 1998 flight on Endeavor. And I remember visiting with his parents in their living room here in Spokane.
Anderson, a Cheney High graduate, was born on Christmas Day in 1959. If life was fair, he would have had many, many more birthdays.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/1998/jan/20/prepared-for-takeoff-cheney-high-grad-michael/
Features writer Paul Turner is a columnist for The Spokesman-Review in the Features department. He writes "The Slice" column, which appears six times a week and produces general features stories for the Today section.
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