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dukeboy440 said

Nice! I was just wrapping up national space week that week with my Civil Air Patrol squadron, happened to wake up early and was flipping through channels when I caught it on CNN, they were covering the expected landing and it was missing at first. Civil air patrol in Texas and Louisiana was used to help find the wreckage. I know they found one body, not sure if they found the others or not

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I got exposed to the shuttles when I lived out in the desert. We used to see them hauling the prototype around on the 747 tow truck once in a while. I think we were 60 miles from Edwards AFB? There is Federal controlled air space all over that neighborhood, Edwards, Ft Irwin, China Lake. We were in the approach pattern from Ft Irwin to Edwards. I worked on the launch complex at Vandenberg for 3 years.