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we have a report from the flight dynamics officer that the vehicle has exploded. reporter: the columbia accident in 2003. 14 astronauts. 14 of the most beloved were killed. we will never forget them nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye. and slipped the surly bonds of earth to touch the face of god. reporter: in the end, though, the shuttles were going into orbit for something like $500 million per flight, without the sense of mission that had driven nasa in the early years of the moon race. astronauts said they were fantastic machines. but the white house said private enterprise could do the job just as well. so even though thousands of jobs are ing lost, even though the next project for american astronauts is not clear, the shuttle program now ends. we were just talking about