Twenty-five years ago, Space Shuttle Columbia launched the Chandra X-ray observatory and nearly ended in catastrophe. As the then-ascent flight director John Shannon observed: "Yikes. We don't ...

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

The Space Shuttle Columbia, the first of its kind, has just made an absolutely picture-perfect landing on this dry lakebed." Nick Charles: Seven months later to the day, another successful launch ...

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 ...

As NASA prepares Space Shuttle Columbia for its 28th mission, excitement and trepidation build amongst the astronauts and ...