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Broken apart: on February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia and my husband of twenty years were coming home. But nothing that day turned out the way it was supposed to.

Publication: Texas Monthly
Publication Date: 01-FEB-04 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Broken apart: on February 1, 2003, the space shuttle Columbia and my husband of twenty years were coming home. But nothing that day turned out the way it was supposed to.(As Told To)

Article Excerpt
THE COLUMBIA LAUNCHED ON January 16, 2003, and Rick had been gone for sixteen days. I was at Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, with my twelve-year-old daughter, Laura, and my seven-year-old son, Matthew. We were waiting with the other crew families, and we could hear the communication coming over the speakers from Mission Control to the crew. I was very excited and looking forward to all of us being together again as a family.

I didn't pick up on any of the signals that something was wrong until about a minute before the landing. I asked Steve Lindsay, one of the astronauts with us, where I was supposed to be looking and when we were supposed to hear the sonic boom. But he...

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