The CNN Original Series “Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight” uncovers ... you eliminate the hazard of any debris coming off the vehicle and hitting the spacecraft,” Reisman said.

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 ...

“Space Shuttle Columbia: The Last Flight” demonstrates ... At the shuttle's launch, O’Brien immediately saw on video how the debris had struck Columbia's wing. He made some calls to his ...

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 ...

Seventeen astronauts were lost in the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. The crew of Apollo 1 during training in Florida in January 1967. From left, Virgil "Gus ...