On February 1st, 2003 at eighteen seconds past 9:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, the Space Shuttle Columbia broke up during atmospheric entry over Texas. Still traveling at approximately Mach 18.3 ...

STS-1, better known as the space shuttle Columbia, left NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on 12 April 1981, and just over two days later came down to land at Edwards Air Force Base in ...

Minnesota teen’s space experiment flew aboard Columbia in 1982, revealing how bugs react to weightlessness during shuttle ...

“I’m going to give you a little more confusing background ... Columbia before STS-93; across five Shuttle launch campaigns, he’d seen a wide variety of last-minute or last-second issues with ...

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 ...

Hannah Berryman’s documentary “Spacewoman” chronicles the life and career of astronaut Eileen Collins, the first woman to ...

Nick Charles: On April 14th, the Space Shuttle Columbia touched down on a desert strip in California, beginning a new age in space. Bob Foss relives that magic moment … Bob Foss: "The nose wheel ...

Here’s a look at human spaceflight programs in the United States and around the world. Facts The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and ...

On March 13, 2025, the Columbia Memorial Space Center in Downey, California, will serve as the backdrop for a momentous occasion as Ethel L. Lee, affectionately known as “Space Shuttle Ethel,” ...