Just before it disintegrated, space shuttle Columbia experienced ... the shuttle crash with a focus on damage to heat tiles. Communication with the shuttle was lost soon after.

From North Port to Naples, many of you were telling us you saw a strange glowing object or objects in the clear night sky ...

The American space shuttle is commonly regarded as the ... Just like the American shuttle, tiny carbon heat-shielding tiles were glued to the underside of the Buran. In all, 38,000 tiles were ...