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Search for Parts from Space Shuttle Columbia Will End in Two Weeks.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, April, 2003

By Gwyneth K. Shaw, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Apr. 17--LUFKIN, Texas--After more than two-and-a-half months of searching nearly 600,000 acres, the extraordinary process of recovering pieces of the space shuttle Columbia is coming to an end.

The painstaking search -- which involved almost 6,000 people at its peak in early March -- will essentially stop April 30, officials announced this week.

The last of the three base camps that have hosted the people searching huge swaths of east Texas will close down May 2.

There will only be 13 people left two weeks later. The mother ship for the operation -- the Disaster Field Office in Lufkin -- shuts down May 10, and the remaining recovery operations...

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