Here is the vessel that flew 127 women and men on twenty-eight missions into space. Here is the wounded vehicle that fought valiantly to the bitter end to try to bring her last seven crew members home. Here, in this volume the size of two or three average houses, rests the results of the collective efforts of twenty-five thousand people who searched every square foot of a debris field the size of Delaware and Rhode Island combined during three months of 2003. Preserved here is the work of the hundreds of people who processed, cleaned, examined, and cataloged every one of the eighty-four
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