PHOTO TAKEN 18NOV97, Space shuttle Columbia astronaut Kalpana Chawla smiles as crewmembers of mis.., 2003-02-01...

PHOTO TAKEN 18NOV97, Space shuttle Columbia astronaut Kalpana Chawla smiles as crewmembers of mission STS-87 greeted family and friends at the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center November 18, 1997. The U.S. space agency NASA lost contact with the space shuttle Columbia minutes before its scheduled landing on Saturday and said there could be debris in Texas from the orbiter. [Television images showed several white trails in the blue sky, which could be an indication of the breakup of the shuttle because normally only a single trail is visible. The agency lost contact at around 9 a.m./1400 GMT, about 16 minutes before its scheduled landing at Kennedy Space Center. Columbia is NASA's oldest shuttle and first flew in 1981.]