On February 1st, 2003 at eighteen seconds past 9:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, the Space Shuttle Columbia ... crushing loss of human life it had already incurred. During Columbia’s climb ...

Following its return to Earth after a 16-day space mission, the Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart on its journey back into the Earth's atmosphere on Feb. 1, 2003. All seven crew members were killed.

Just before it disintegrated, space shuttle Columbia experienced an abnormal ... crew operations at the Johnson Space Center, said remains from all seven of the astronauts had been found.

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 ...

"If you work in human spaceflight ... where the debris from Columbia and the remains of the crew had fallen from the sky. "There were pieces of space shuttle, thousands and thousands of pieces ...