Twenty-five years ago, Space Shuttle Columbia launched the Chandra X-ray ... As the Shuttle lifted off, the commander, Eileen Collins, called "Fuel Cell PH." Hale wrote that the call indicated ...

The CNN Original Series “Space Shuttle Columbia ... space industry to take over the task. Commercial companies had a bit more leeway to innovate in the post-Columbia era, Hale and Reisman ...

What a magnificent sight it is out here. The chase planes came right down with it and they're now flying off. The Space Shuttle Columbia, the first of its kind, has just made an absolutely picture ...

During Columbia’s climb to space, a piece of insulating foam came off of ... a vehicle to take crew and cargo to the ISS and bring them back home. This was a task which the Shuttle was vastly ...

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 ...

What crossed my mind then, when the papers were beginning to fill us in on all the knotty details of the coming space shuttle ... yet come to take for granted the feat of the Columbia.

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 ...