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 ...

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 ...

Amarillo-native Rick Husband and six other astronauts were killed 22-years-ago when Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart over Texas during re-entry. Born in 1957, Husband graduated from Amarillo ...