﻿This is Space News from channel 3. This year, the first woman commander of NASA Eileen 
Collins, travelled into space with her crew and brought the space shuttle Discovery safe back 
to Earth. This was the first mission after the Columbia tragedy two years ago. On Saturday 1st 
February, 2003 the space shuttle Columbia broke up in the sky only 16 minutes before landing 
at the Kennedy space centre in Florida. Seven astronauts died in the tragic accident. And it 
was not the first one. We all remember the year 1986 when the space shuttle Challenger 
exploded 73 seconds after lift-off. Seven astronauts died then too. One of the seven members 
was a teacher, Christa McAuliffe. She wanted to give lessons from space. So, the question is: 
Should we go into space or not?  We are going to talk about this with Mr Pete Jones. Mr Pete 
Jones is the.... 