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Langley Research Center in Virginia is one of the few places with the facilities to shed light on what happens when a vehicle travels at Mach 18. Engineers and physicists there have begun conducting tests for the federal commission investigating the 1 February disaster that killed the crew of the space shuttle Columbia.