Two FBI agents who joined the space shuttle Columbia recovery effort 20 years ago are sharing their stories for the first time.
"They would put barricades around stuff, put flags all around," said Chambers."And they would be out there with guns protecting it. One guy, remember, he would stay there for a day and a half till we got there, he wasn't going to move.""He's got it in his hand and I've got a bag and then he's mapping the location we're at," Wilson said of the recovery process.
Before Chambers left East Texas, an astronaut gave him a keepsake and he has treasured it ever since. Space shuttle Columbia's final mission patch hangs on his wall. It bears the names of the seven astronauts that he and Wilson brought back home to their families."That's the best I can do, just helping them bring each other home," Chambers said."It was touching times."
The Apollo 1 launch pad fire claimed three astronauts' lives on Jan. 27, 1967. Shuttle Challenger broke apart during liftoff on Jan. 28, 1986, killing all seven aboard, and shuttle Columbia was destroyed during reentry on Feb. 1, 2003.
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