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

While the Space Shuttle, officially known as the Space Transportation System (STS) would fly again after the Columbia disaster, even the program’s most ardent supporters had to admit ...

Commander Lee Archambault introduced five of the seven members of the STS-119 mission crew ... and how well space shuttle Discovery handled throughout the mission. “It was an exciting mission ...