Vehicles drive slowly by a piece of what is believed to be debris from the space shuttle Columbia on Feb. 1, 2003, in the median on State Road 155 north of Palestine, Texas. Indian residents ...

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 ...

The CNN Original Series “Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight” uncovers ... you eliminate the hazard of any debris coming off the vehicle and hitting the spacecraft,” Reisman said.

“Space Shuttle Columbia: The Last Flight” demonstrates ... At the shuttle's launch, O’Brien immediately saw on video how the debris had struck Columbia's wing. He made some calls to his ...

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 ...