The disaster grounded the shuttle fleet for the best part of three years.
They had been scheduled to return in March aboard the shuttle Atlantis, but after the Columbia disaster grounded the shuttle fleet, they had to wait for the Russian capsule.
Although five years have passed, many questions about the environmental disaster at ground zero remain unanswered.
A Logical Choice Forty-eight hours after the attack, Dr. Robin Herbert, Dr. Stephen Levin and other Mount Sinai doctors met at a Westchester County home to figure out how to respond to the disaster at ground zero.
On the terrible day of Sept. 11, 2001, Kerik was with the mayor as Giuliani left the disaster at ground zero, searching for a telephone to contact the outside world.
On a day when the skies were ashen from the smoke of distant wildfires, Chase Hurley kept his eyes trained on the slower-moving disaster at ground level: collapsing levees, buckling irrigation canals, water rising up over bridges and sloshing over roads.
Since the 1989 disaster, the ground has seen substantial changes, including the removal of terraces and metal fencing.
To put it simply, there's never been a wind blowout, no wind meltdowns, not a single wind-mining disaster, no ground water contamination from wind fracking, no clean up needed from a massive wind spill.
The station has been operating with a two-member crew since the Columbia disaster three years ago grounded the shuttle fleet.
Prior to the Hillsborough stadium disaster, football grounds were very difficult places and the game had a very negative national image.
