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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Ralph Roe (second from right), with the Orbiter Work Group, JSC, and Shuttle Program Manager Ron Dittemore (third from right) look at Columbia debris in the RLV Hangar at KSC. The Columbia Restoration Project Team is examining pieces and attempting to reconstruct the orbiter as part of the investigation into the accident that caused the destruction of Columbia on its return to Earth from mission STS-107. To date, four shipments have arrived from Barksdale AFB, Shreveport, La., the collection point for debris.