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Kalpana Chawla was on board to the spacecraft Columbia in 2003 and while it was time to re-entry, the space shuttle was pulled apart because there was a hole inwing caused by falling foam at the time of lift-off allowed the extreme heat of the re-entry process to enter the wing structure and cause landing problem.

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