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A sound montage of some of the voices from yesterday's space shuttle Columbia disaster, including Mission Control declaring a contingency for the shuttle; Barbara Lancaster of Richardson, Texas, who heard overhead a loud pair of booms produced by the shuttle; NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe; William Readdy, NASA's associate administrator for space flight; and President George W. Bush.

Liane Hansen talks with NPR's Joe Palca about the investigation into Saturday's crash of the space shuttle Columbia.

NPR's Wade Goodwyn has more on the trail of debris from the Columbia, which is scattered over an area of eastern Texas and Louisiana for several hundred square miles.

NPR's Joseph Shapiro reports on the impact this weekend's crash of the space shuttle Columbia will have on the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Liane Hansen presents an excerpt from President Bush's address to the nation yesterday on the Columbia tragedy.

Liane Hansen presents some of the other headline's in today's news.

Liane Hansen talks with Alan Roland of Duke University about the future of manned space flight.

Liane Hansen reads from a young listener's letter. Jessi Hall, 16, from Jamestown, Ohio, wrote a poem about the space shuttle Columbia.

Steve talks to NPR's Larry Abramson about what was learned from the investigation into 1986's space shuttle Challenger disaster.

Host Steve Inskeep speaks with NPR's Richard Harris and NPR's Ira Flatow about information NASA presented today in a news conference from Houston on developments in the investigation of the space shuttle Columbia disaster.