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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.

Jack Williams of member station KUHF in Houston takes us to Grace Community Church in Texas, where parishioners remembered two of the astronauts who died yesterday, Rick Husband and Mike Anderson. NPR's Phillip Davis reports on reactions from Florida.

The University of Michigan's affirmative action program draws support from unexpected groups in the face of a Supreme Court challenge supported in part by the Bush administration. Retired military officers and Fortune 500 companies urge justices to leave the race-based admissions policy alone. NPR's Debbie Elliott reports.

NPR's Emily Harris reports from Hamburg on today's proceedings in the trial of Mounir al-Montassadeq, who is charged in connection with the Sept. 11 plots. The families of American victims are co-plaintiffs in the case, and the court today heard their testimony. Prosecutors say the defendant played a key role in the Hamburg cell of al Qaeda -- run by 9/11 hijacker Mohammed Atta. Defense attorneys say their client cannot get a fair trial, because the U.S. and German governments are withholding key information.

In the second part of our series on debt in America we'll hear about the boom in cash-out mortgage financing and about the history of debt in our society. The book mentioned is Credit Card Nation: The Consequences of America's Addiction to Credit, published by Basic Books; Dec., 2001.