WE REMEMBER CDR Laurel Clark, US Navy, and her fellow crew members who lost their lives on February 1, 2003 aboard the Columbia space shuttle. "The Columbia STS-107 mission lifted off on January 16, 2003, for a 17-day science mission featuring numerous microgravity experiments. Upon reentering the atmosphere on February 1, 2003, the Columbia orbiter suffered a catastrophic failure due to a breach that occurred during launch when falling foam from the External Tank struck the Reinforced Carbon Ca