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.

Following its return to Earth after a 16-day space mission, the Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart on its ... after breaking off from the external tank. While the damage was tended to at the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nick Charles: On April 14th, the Space Shuttle Columbia touched ... a picture-perfect second launch of Columbia; but after launch, the problems began. A failed fuel cell was the major problem.

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 ...

aboard Space Shuttle Endeavour on STS-127. During launch, insulation foam from the external fuel tank fell and struck Endeavour’s heat shield, the same danger which crippled Columbia.

Mattingly also flew with Henry "Hank" Hartsfield on Space Shuttle Columbia for STS-4 in 1982 ... ice forming on the Space Shuttle's external tank coming loose during the ascent and potentially ...