This video begins at 7:35 am Central Time, 17 minutes after the deorbit burn, with the shuttle over the South Pacific at an altitude of over 500,000-ft. It continues for 13 minutes to 7:48 Central Time, as the shuttle passed north east of Hawaii at approximately 250,000-ft.

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The ARRL Letter from The American Radio Relay League reports that the all-ham crew aboard the International Space Station will return to Earth in early May via the Russian Soyuz escape vehicle. NASA Chief Sean O'Keefe said that the 16 ISS partner countries have agreed to use the Russian capsule to ferry a new two-person crew to the station--one American and one
Russian--and to bring the current three-man crew home.

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The ARRL Letter from The American Radio Relay League reports that. Pioneer 10 spacecraft sends last signal: Talk about weak-signal DX! NASA
says that after more than 30 years, it appears the venerable Pioneer 10
spacecraft has sent its last signal to Earth.

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Approaching their 100th day in orbit, the International Space Station’s Expedition 6 crewmembers completed an important test of on-orbit spacewalk preparation this week, while program managers cleared the way for a crew rotation scenario that will bring the three-man crew back to Earth in Kazakhstan in May.

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About 13 minutes of video recorded by Columbia's crew Feb. 1 as they prepared for landing was released today on NASA television. The video recorded on the flight deck was taken with a small camera mounted first to the right of Pilot Willie McCool and later held by Mission Specialist Laurel Clark.

Evidence continues to accumulate that NASA's engineers become alarmingly sloppy about the possible danger posed by detached fragments of the external tank's insulation hitting the Shuttle's tiles -- in the same way that they got sloppy about the threat posed by O-ring erosion due to cold weather before Challenger.

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NASA's top administrator, Sean O'Keefe, said today he "completely rejects the proposition" that nothing could have been done in orbit to help Columbia if engineers had known the space shuttle was in trouble.

NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe told a Congressional hearing Thursday on Capitol Hill that the three Expedition Six crewmembers, who were originally scheduled to return home in March aboard the Space Shuttle Atlantis during the STS-114 mission, will now return to Earth aboard the Soyuz TMA-1 craft in early May.