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Host Steve Inskeep reflects on another intrepid space explorer, astronomer Galileo Galillei.

Remains have been found from all seven astronauts killed when the space shuttle Columbia broke apart upon re-entry Saturday, NASA officials say. Hear NPR's Steve Inskeep and Richard Harris

NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports from Nacogdoches, in East Texas, where much of the debris from the shuttle Columbia has been collected over the last two days. Law enforcement officers have been guarding the material, and citizens have been delivering pieces of the wreckage to authorities.

President Bush today releases his budget for fiscal 2004. The proposal includes slashing taxes, reducing funding for many domestic programs, and increasing defense spending by $17 billion. NPR's Andrea Seabrook reports.

Boys are more likely than girls to use Ritalin and other stimulant prescriptions for attention deficit disorder, a new study in Pediatrics finds. NPR's Jackie Northam reports.

NPR's Martin Kaste reports from Bogota on the release of two foreign journalists kidnapped by Colombia's leftist E-L-N rebel group. Some journalists now worry that Colombia's government may use the incident to cut back on press freedom. (3:45)

NPR's Joe Palca joins host Bob Edwards to address some of the questions about NASA's handling of safety.

In a five-part series for Morning Edition, NPR's Eric Weiner and Michael Sullivan examine the spread of terrorism in Southeast Asia. In Part One, Weiner reports from the Philippines -- a Roman Catholic country that seems an unlikely place for an al Qaeda cell, but where investigators believe the militant Islamist group gained its first foothold in the region.

The White House has announced that President Bush will travel to Houston for a memorial service for the astronauts of the space shuttle Columbia. Host Steve Inskeep talks with NPR White House Correspondent Don Gonyea.

NPR's Richard Harris reports that the NASA investigation into Saturday's disintegration of the space shuttle Columbia is concentrating more closely on the landing gear compartment in the aircraft's left wing. There's increasing evidence that the problem started there. Before the spacecraft came apart, the left side of the shuttle, adjoining the wing, heated up by an alarming 60 degrees over a few minutes. The wheel well where the landing gear is stored during flight is especially vulnerable to heat.