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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - In the RLV Hangar, members of the Columbia Reconstruction Project Team look at a piece of debris. Second from left is Mike Leinbach, who is Shuttle launch director. To date, 35,319 pieces of debris have been shipped to KSC; 1,218 have been identified and placed on a grid in a configuration of the orbiter. The team is attempting to reconstruct the bottom of the orbiter as part of the investigation into the accident that caused the destruction of Columbia and loss of its crew as it returned to Earth on mission STS-107.