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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...