Take a look back at the tragedy, its aftermath and the mourning of a nation. The Space Shuttle Columbia ... the shuttle’s left wing after breaking off from the external tank.

Just before it disintegrated, space shuttle Columbia experienced an abnormal ... The goal is to establish a sequence of how parts were ripped off Columbia as it endured the intense heat and ...

Twenty-five years ago, Space Shuttle Columbia launched the Chandra X-ray ... As the Shuttle lifted off, the commander, Eileen Collins, called "Fuel Cell PH." Hale wrote that the call indicated ...

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 ...

During Columbia’s climb to space, a piece of insulating foam came off of ... a vehicle to take crew and cargo to the ISS and bring them back home. This was a task which the Shuttle was vastly ...

In memory of the 22nd anniversary of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster ... for evidence of ancient water How often should you turn off your phone? Here’s what the NSA says ...

Seventeen astronauts were lost in the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters ... but the spacecraft never made it off the launch pad. An investigator looks ...