First American woman in space: STS-7 (Challenger ... The tragic loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia on Feb. 1, 2003, brought a devastating end to its 16-day science mission. The crew, led by ...

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 ...

While the Space Shuttle, officially known as the Space Transportation System (STS) would fly again after ... the odds of losing a crew member to 1-in-270 (down from 1-in-90 with the Shuttle).

The first shuttle mission of 1995, STS-63 included several historic firsts. As part of Phase 1 of the International Space ...

I address you here this afternoon at 11:40 a.m. This morning Space ... STS-51L mission was originally targeted for Jan. 23, 1986, but was pushed back because of delays with the Columbia shuttle ...