Given the question: Facts: - death place: over texas - mission: sts-89 , sts-107 - type: nasa astronaut - insignia: 30px 30px - status: '' ' deceased '' ' - death date: 1 february 2003 - selection: 1994 nasa group - birth date: 25 december 1959 - previous occupation: pilot , scientist - name: michael phillip anderson - time: 24d 18h 08m - nationality: american - image: michael p. anderson.jpg - birth place: plattsburgh , new york , united states - rank: lt. colonel , usaf - alma mater: washington , b.s. 1981 creighton , m.s. 1990 Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of michael p. anderson .
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michael phillip anderson -lrb- december 25 , 1959 -- february 1 , 2003 -rrb- was a united states air force officer and nasa astronaut , who was killed in the space shuttle columbia disaster when the craft disintegrated after reentry into the earth 's atmosphere .anderson was born in plattsburgh , new york , into an air force family and grew up as a military aspirant .he attended high school in cheney , washington , while his father was stationed at fairchild air force base , west of spokane .