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06/10/2003: "Colorado peak to be named for Columbia crew"
WASHINGTON -- A Colorado mountain peak will be named Columbia Point today in honor of the seven astronauts who died when the space shuttle Columbia broke up over Texas on Feb. 1.
The peak on Kit Carson Mountain in the Sangre de Cristo Range near Colorado Springs is close to the 14,081-foot Challenger Point, Interior Department spokeswoman Joan Moody said Monday. That peak was named in honor of the seven crew members who died in the Challenger space shuttle explosion in 1986. (Houston Post)
