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Shuttle's Front Landing Gear Found
By Lisa Falkenberg
Associated Press
posted: 02:00 pm ET
19 February 2003
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HEMPHILL, Texas - Space shuttle Columbia's nose landing gear has been found largely intact in the woods near Toledo Bend Reservoir, NASA said WednesdayHEMPHILL, Texas - Space shuttle Columbia's nose landing gear has been found largely intact in the woods near Toledo Bend Reservoir, NASA said Wednesday. Navy Capt. Chris Murray said residents found the gear and notified divers who were searching the East Texas lake for shuttle debris. NASA spokesman Dave Drachlis said NASA identified the object as Columbia's nose gear. Divers and officials with the Navy, Environmental Protection Agency, and the Galveston and Houston police departments continued searching the lake for pieces of the shuttle. Witnesses reported that large pieces splashed into the water after the spacecraft disintegrated Feb. 1. Diving is expected to continue through the next 45 days, NASA spokeswoman Kathy Barnstorff said Wednesday. The search has been frustrated by bad weather and water so murky that the visibility is only 20 inches. So far, divers have found only one shuttle part a cylindrical hunk of metal whose function NASA officials have not yet identified. Meanwhile, U.S. Forest Service officials coordinating the ground searches said they are racing to find as much material as possible before spring foliage obscures things.
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