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[i]The Nacogdoches police informed NASA of the find and sent pictures for identification. NASA engineers who work on the shuttle's PRSD systems were able to confirm the tank came from Columbia. "One of the guys had been here more than 30 years and recognized it, and said, 'That's one of the tanks,'" Malone said. The piece was one of 18 tanks on the orbiter that stored supercold oxygen (O2) and hydrogen (H2). The spherical tank, about 40 inches (1 meter) in diameter, will eventually be shipped back to Kennedy Space Center, where NASA stores all the collected debris from Columbia in a climate controlled repository found on the 16th floor of the center's 52-story Vehicle Assembly Building.[/i]
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