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CAPE CANAVERAL — Wreckage from shuttle Columbia was uncovered in East Texas this week, the result of a prolonged drought lowering water levels in a lake.The spherical tank, which is about four feet in diameter, is stuck in the mud alongside Lake Nacogdoches.More than 40 tons of wreckage rained down on a long swath of East Texas and Louisiana as Columbia disintegrated during its atmospheric re-entry in February 2003, killing all seven astronauts.Lisa Malone, a spokeswoman for NASA's Kennedy Space Center, said the tank was part of Columbia's power-producing fuel cell system.
