The astronauts' first full day in space on Wednesday will include a remote video inspection of the shuttle wings' leading edges and other parts of the craft's thermal protection system for ...

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (CNN) --Investigators looking for the cause of the space shuttle Columbia ... striking heat-resistant tiles on the shuttle's left wing, NASA officials 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 ...

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 ...