Just before it disintegrated, space shuttle Columbia experienced an abnormal ... of the shuttle — the same side hit by a piece of fuel-tank insulation during the launch 16 days earlier.

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 ...

Core Stage that makes it more than just a big fuel tank is the Main Propulsion System (MPS). All the equipment for the care and feeding of uprated Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME), adapted for ...

On February 1st, 2003 at eighteen seconds past 9:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, the Space Shuttle ... Columbia’s climb to space, a piece of insulating foam came off of the external tank and ...

Twenty-five years ago, Space Shuttle Columbia ... that one of the fuel cells might be failing: "It's the Kaboom Case, Flight." However, although the master alarm onboard Columbia was wailing ...