The bronze medallion embedded in the pavement behind the Commercial Bank of Texas is easy to overlook. About the size of a DVD, it barely registers as a bump for the cars pulling into the drive-thru window.
But it is there ? engraved with the name of the space shuttle Columbia and the date five years ago Friday that the spacecraft exploded over the skies of eastern Texas.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, FL (AP) -- NASA workers who launched Columbia into orbit, volunteers who rummaged the fields for the shuttle's remains and everyday supporters of the space program united Sunday on the first anniversary of the catastrophe - to mourn and to remember.
 Section: Columbia Tragedy
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