NASA issues a report, providing the most detailed account of the final moments of the seven astronauts who died aboard the spacecraft Columbia before its disintegration upon re-entry in 2003.

Perhaps more than any other moment in NASA’s history ... according to previous reporting and a new CNN docuseries, “Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight.” The disaster led directly ...

On February 1st, 2003 at eighteen seconds past 9:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, the Space Shuttle Columbia broke up during atmospheric entry over Texas. Still traveling at approximately Mach 18.3 ...

Cape Canaveral, Fla.? Just before it disintegrated, space shuttle Columbia experienced an abnormal rise in temperature and wind resistance that forced the craft’s automatic pilot to make rapid ...

Twenty-five years ago, Space Shuttle Columbia ... there since Columbia was manufactured. And the pin? Apparently, it had never passed any acceptance testing. STS-93 was the last flight of that ...

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 ...

Seventeen astronauts were lost in the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. The crew of Apollo 1 during training in Florida in January 1967. From left, Virgil "Gus ...