CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - The space carry Columbia has separated in the skies over Texas, murdering every one of the seven space travelers on board in what NASA and President George W. Shrubbery have called a national disaster.

​NASA said it was propelling an examination concerning the catastrophe and a mission in Texas to recoup the space explorers' remaining parts. The separation spread conceivably lethal flotsam and jetsam over a wide swath of the state. 

It was not clear what caused Saturday's catastrophe but rather with the country jittery about the commencement to conceivable war with Iraq, authorities reduced fear based oppression. "Right now we have no sign that the setback was caused by anything or anybody on the ground," NASA overseer Sean O'Keefe told columnists.

Sensational TV pictures of the bus' plunge unmistakably demonstrated a few white trails streaking through blue skies after the bus abruptly flared and crumbled.

Save groups mixed to scan for the remaining parts of the team, which incorporated the main Israeli to fly on the bus, previous battle pilot Colonel Ilan Ramon. There were alerts that parts of a tremendous 120 square miles garbage field could be dangerous on account of noxious rocket force.

"The Columbia is lost. There are no survivors," said a troubling confronted Bush in a message communicate on TV, which included sympathies to the groups of the dead space travelers. "Our whole country laments with you."

Israelis and Americans viewed their TVs in stun as points of interest unfurled.

VIPs arranged to welcome the returning space explorers were driven far from a show off close to the bus' runway by NASA authorities after reports of the debacle which happened only minutes previously the planned transport landing.

It was just about 17 years to the day that the Challenger carry detonated on January 28, 1986, killing every one of the seven space travelers on board. The seven space explorers on board Columbia deferentially watched a moment's quietness in their memory on Tuesday.

In Washington, the White House hail was at half staff.

A colossal security task had been mounted to ensure the take-off of Columbia on January 16 in view of psychological oppression fears and the nearness of the Israeli space explorer.

Bramble called Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to regret an "awful day for the space travelers' families and a disastrous day for science."

Take-off and reentry into Earth's climate are the most unsafe parts of a space mission. In 42 years of U.S. human space flight, there had never been a mishap in the drop to Earth or landing. Challenger detonated soon after take-off.

"Now I need to state it's too soon to hypothesize about the correct reason," Bill Readdy, NASA relate manager for space flight said. "Clearly we're taking a gander at all the information that we have accessible."

The mishap is probably going to bring up issues over the life span of the van armada as Columbia was NASA's most established transport and first flew in 1981. It was 32 months after the Challenger calamity before NASA flew a space carry once more.

It additionally brought up issues about the resupply of the International Space Station. The bus is the fundamental resupply vehicle for the station in space.

Whatever remains of the Columbia team were Americans named as Mission Commander Rick Husband, Pilot William McCool, Payload Commander Michael Anderson, Mission Specialist David Brown, Mission Specialists Laurel Clark and Kalpana Chawla. Ramon was recorded as a finance pro.

The organization lost contact with the van, which was finishing a 16-day mission, at around 6 a.m. PDT while it was 207,000 feet above Earth, and a little ways from its planned arriving at Kennedy Space Center.

It was going at 12,500 mph, 18 times the speed of sound.

On Friday, NASA flight section chief, Leroy Cain, was gotten some information about conceivable harm to one side wing of the orbiter which may have happened on lift-off. He said investigations by NASA engineers had demonstrated any harm to be minor, including: "We're not working any worries on the orbiter."

There were numerous reports from nearby occupants of the bus evidently breaking separated, with a few trails seen as it made a beeline for Earth, and of an abnormally enormous blast.

NASA central station said there had been no announced challenges from the van before it lost contact.

In Israel, Ramon family companion Modi Keren disclosed to Israeli Army Radio he was with Ramon relatives. "We are for the most part sitting and planning to hear new things. This looks awful. I particularly trust we will hear unique, in light of the fact that as of now things look horrendous."

Ramon's mom was a Holocaust survivor from the Auschwitz death camp. In memory of relatives who did not survive the Nazi principle of World War Two, Ramon took with him a pencil drawing by a Czech Jewish kid.

There was mounting worry about dangerous synthetic concoctions from the flotsam and jetsam around Texas. NASA mission control in Houston stated, "Any flotsam and jetsam that is situated in the Dallas-Fort Worth region ought to be kept away from and might be dangerous."

Nacogdoches, Texas, got one report of the observing of what gave off an impression of being an entryway from the orbiter.

"We do have a flotsam and jetsam field. It is scattered all through Nacogdoches," said Victoria Lafollett, city administrator of Nacogdoches around 145 miles upper east of Houston.

"What we've done is initiated our crisis tasks Center. Since we have such huge numbers of pieces all through the city, we're requesting that individuals avoid them. We're working intimately with NASA and the FBI," Lafollett said.

The van's seven space travelers had finished off science tests led on the mission, which had been regarded a win by researchers and NASA authorities. The van did not visit the International Space Station on this outing.

The destiny of the International Space Station, a $95 billion (58 billion pound) venture nearing the last phases of culmination, could remain in a critical state after these occasions.

The three space travelers currently living there have nourishment, air and water to keep going for a considerable length of time however the station's circle over the planet should be helped by a meeting transport occasionally.

The following space carry mission was to have left on March 1 to convey another fragment to the space station, with space traveler Eileen Collins in order of the bus Atlantis.

A Boeing organization official said space station work at Kennedy was stopped not long after news of the catastrophe. Boeing takes a shot at space station parts at Kennedy Space Center before they are propelled.