Twenty-five years ago, Space Shuttle Columbia launched the Chandra X-ray ... all the engines were up and running and operating at 100 percent power. A former Shuttle flight director, Wayne Hale ...

When Space Shuttle Columbia launched in January 2003 ... It was damage from this blow, they suspected, that led to the shuttle's destruction. Yet some NASA officials were skeptical, claiming ...

revealing "significant erosion and 'blow-by' between the primary and secondary O-rings." The erosion was the most significant observed by the Space Shuttle program up to that point and was ...