{"id":11928,"date":"2013-02-01T14:32:06","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T20:32:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=11928"},"modified":"2013-02-01T14:32:06","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T20:32:06","slug":"columbia-crew-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=11928","title":{"rendered":"Columbia, Crew Remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/columbiacres.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-11929\" title=\"columbiacrew\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/columbiacres.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) &#8211; It&#8217;s a special day of remembrance for NASA.<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0 Ten years ago, space shuttle Columbia and its seven astronauts were lost. They were returning from a 16-day mission, and were just 16 minutes from home when the shuttle disintegrated on Feb. 1, 2003.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A few hundred people gathered at Florida&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center on Friday morning to remember the Columbia seven. NASA officials joined family members, astronauts and schoolchildren for the outdoor ceremony.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The widow of Columbia&#8217;s commander told the crowd the accident was so unexpected and the shock so intense, that she could not cry at first. Evelyn Husband Thompson says the tears came &#8220;in waves and buckets&#8221; in the week, months and years that followed. She assured everyone, though, that healing is possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) &#8211; It&#8217;s a special day of remembrance for NASA. \u00a0\u00a0 Ten years ago, space shuttle Columbia and its seven astronauts were lost. They were returning from a 16-day mission, and were just 16 minutes from home when the shuttle disintegrated on Feb. 1, 2003. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11929,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11928"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11930,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11928\/revisions\/11930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}