Nasa has started to try and find out what went wrong with the space shuttle Columbia which broke up on re-entry into Earth's atmosphere on Saturday 1 February 2003.
Here are the facts as we know them, leading up to and immediately after the accident.
- The weather was perfect to land a shuttle, and the Columbia should have set down at 9:16am Eastern Standard Time (EST), or 2:16pm UK time.
- 8.15am EST: The shuttle entered Earth's atmosphere with its nose "tilted".
- 8:53: The temperature sensors in the left wing stopped working.
- 8:56: Sensors by the left wheel said there was a temperature increase.