SHUTTLE PROGRAM BACK IN BUSINESS

Out of the depths of despair and into flightMore than two years after the Columbia crew perished, the shuttle program is back in business
By MATHEW INGRAM

Wednesday, July 27, 2005 Page A3

With a report from Jane Taber in Ottawa

CAPE CANAVERAL, FLA. -- Can an entire country heave a single, collective sigh of relief? If so, then that's what the United States did yesterday morning when the space shuttle Discovery lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 10:39 a.m. and soared skyward, 2½ years after an explosion destroyed its sister ship Columbia as it was returning to Earth, killing its entire crew and bringing the U.S. shuttle program to a screeching halt.

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