More than 20 years later, families of the Columbia crew carry on their loved ones’ legacies

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More than 20 years later, families of the Columbia crew carry on their loved ones’ legacies

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When NASA’s Columbia shuttle launched on January 16, 2003, it carried a crew of seven astronauts who had spent nearly three years getting to know one another before venturing on a 16-day science mission into space. NASA selected astronauts Michael P. Anderson, David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel B. Clark, Rick D. Husband and William C. “Willie” McCool, as well as Ilan Ramon of the Israeli Space Agency for the…