The Space Shuttle Columbia, on mission STS-107, first launched on Jan. 16 ... During the ship’s initial launch, a piece of foam struck the shuttle’s left wing after breaking off from the ...
There is long process to get the Space Shuttle into Orbit around the Earth! đź“ĽVideo Summary: There is a long process to getting the Space Shuttle ready to launch! If it lands Vandenburg Air Force Base ...
Twenty-five years ago, Space Shuttle Columbia launched the Chandra X-ray observatory and nearly ended in catastrophe. As the then-ascent flight director John Shannon observed: "Yikes. We don't ...
As NASA prepares Space Shuttle Columbia for its 28th mission, excitement and trepidation build amongst the astronauts and ...
From a spacecraft’s coolant leak to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, astronauts have gotten stuck in space for a ...