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COLUMBIA'S ‘BLACK BOX' DISCOVERED
March 20, 2003 -- HOUSTON - In one of the most significant debris discoveries yet from the shattered Columbia, searchers found a data recorder that may hold valuable clues as to what destroyed the space shuttle, the accident investigation board said last night. A spokeswoman for the board, Laura Brown, said the recorder was intact but sustained some heat damage. Officials are hoping that temperature and aerodynamic pressure data can be retrieved from its magnetic tape. Brown compared the recorder to a plane's black box. "We have no way of knowing whether the data can be recovered," she said. But she added that if it can, "it will give us, hopefully, a lot of information about what was going on with the orbiter."
 Brown said such recorders normally are turned on just before a space shuttle begins its descent through the atmosphere. Columbia disintegrated over Texas on Feb. 1 during its atmospheric re-entry. All seven astronauts were killed.
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