Debris Found in Nevada Not From Shuttle
LAS VEGAS (AP) – NASA said Thursday that debris found in the Nevada desert is not from the space shuttle Columbia, though the search will resume next week.
NASA spokesman Dave Drachlis said technicians from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida examined the more than dozen pieces of metal fragments and aluminum foil this week and found nothing to link the material to the shuttle.
The material was found last weekend about 170 miles northeast of Las Vegas. So far, no debris has been confirmed west of Texas.
Search teams were called in after radar seemed to track objects falling into eastern Nevada and western Utah after the shuttle passed overhead Feb. 1 before disintegrating over Texas, killing all seven astronauts on board.
But there has been no sign of the gear.
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