More than eight years after the Space Shuttle Columbia exploded as it reentered Earth's atmosphere, fishermen in Texas have found a piece of the spacecraft. NASA confirmed to the Stars and Stripes that debris discovered in the receding waters of Lake Nacogdoches was a PRSD (power reactant storage and distribution) tank that provided water and electricity to the Columbia.
The chunk of debris is rather large, at 4 feet in diameter. It emerged when the drought that's been plaguing the southern United States lowered the waters of Lake Nacogdoches.
Sgt. Greg Sowell of the Nacogdoches Police Department tells the Stars and Stripes:
The news agency EuroNews posted this video of the debris on YouTube:
http://youtu.be/UTb9s0iagCs
