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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amarillo-native Rick Husband and six other astronauts were killed 22-years-ago when Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart over Texas during re-entry. Born in 1957, Husband graduated from Amarillo ...

Hawai’i students spoke with astronauts from Space Shuttle Columbia as it flew over the islands, including astronaut Lacy Veach, who was from Hawaiʻi. They also talked to the crew of Hōkūleʻa ...