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Evelyn Husband-Thompson had to steel herself to do the interviews she would inevitably be asked to do in the days approaching the 10th anniversary of the space shuttle Columbia tragedy.

Ten years ago today, Columbia disintegrated upon re-entry over Texas, killing 45-year-old Amarillo astronaut Rick Husband, the mission commander, and his six-member crew.

The disaster occurred 16 minutes from a scheduled landing at Cape Canaveral, Fla., where Husband-Thompson and her children - Laura, 12, and Matthew, 7 - and other crew families waited to greet their astronaut heroes.

Since then, the commander's widow has spoken at memorials on behalf of the crew families, written a book and made presentations to talk about the Christian faith Rick Husband had - the faith in which she remains steadfast. She will again perform that role, speaking today during a ceremony at the Space Mirror memorial at