Just before it disintegrated, space shuttle Columbia experienced an abnormal ... path — possible evidence that some heat-protection tiles were missing or damaged, NASA said Sunday.

The Space Shuttle Columbia, the first of its kind ... Originally scheduled to fly over the month earlier, tiles were broken when the coupling device failed. Then after those problems were fixed ...

While the Space Shuttle, officially known as the Space Transportation System (STS) would fly again after the Columbia disaster ... be shot into damaged thermal tiles with a device not unlike ...

Following its return to Earth after a 16-day space mission, the Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart on its journey back into the Earth's atmosphere on Feb. 1, 2003. All seven crew members were killed.

He remembers finding tiles, pieces of the rocket and landing ... The Patricia Huffman Smith NASA Museum in Hemphill is dedicated to space shuttle Columbia and all nine of the lives lost.

When Space Shuttle Columbia launched in January 2003, a piece of foam the size of a briefcase broke off from the shuttle's external fuel tank and hit the left wing. Some shuttle engineers worried ...

“Starliner is a scaled-up version of the Apollo capsule with the tile ... of the Columbia Memorial Space Center. “It was a ...

The Columbia’s hand-painted ceramic tiles, initially crafted in Seville, Spain, have adorned its facades since 1974, depicting Spanish explorers, intricate Moorish patterns and Mediterranean ...

What crossed my mind then, when the papers were beginning to fill us in on all the knotty details of the coming space shuttle flight ... booster shot of the Columbia. To most of us, I suppose ...