On Sunday, during a media briefing, Columbia-Richland Fire Chief Aubrey Jenkins confirmed that the crash happened in front of ...

The fatal Challenger explosion of Jan. 28, 1986 was in the mind of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board, which noted similar organizational difficulties at NASA that contributed to the two ...

The Columbia Accident Investigation Board, or CAIB, as it was later known, later released a multi-volume report on how the shuttle was destroyed, and what led to it.

Along with recommended technical and management changes, the Columbia Accident Investigation Board told NASA it must "conduct a vehicle recertification at the material, component, subsystem, and ...

: Columbia-Richland Fire Chief Aubrey Jenkins confirmed during a media briefing on Sunday that the firefighters involved in ...

20 Years After Space Shuttle Columbia Disaster, Lessons Learned Still In Sharp Focus At NASA Over the days, weeks and months that followed, the Columbia Accident Investigation Board uncovered a ...

Members of the the space shuttle Columbia accident investigation board including Maj. Gen. Ken Hess, left, Rear Admiral Stephen Turcotte, rear center, and Admiral Harold Gehman, center, talk with ...

The Columbia Accident Investigation Board found numerous safety shortcomings with NASA's Space Shuttle program. For example, tests of the reinforced carbon-carbon system were deemed inadequate in ...

—Columbia Accident Investigation Board Report. At 10:39 Eastern Standard Time on January 16, 2003, space shuttle Columbia lifted off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Following Columbia, Admiral Harold Gehman was charged to lead the CAIB, and because of his leadership, it resulted in one of the most thorough and open accident investigations in U.S. history.

July 11, 2003 Shuttle Columbia Accident Investigation. Admiral Harold Gehman (Retired), Chairman, Columbia Shuttle Accident Investigation Board, presented a briefing about the stat… ...