It was a cloudy Saturday morning on the Space Coast when 12-year-old Tal Ramon anxiously waited with his family for the return of his father Ilan on Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003. Ilan and his six ...

The crew of STS-107, commanded by Rick Husband on his second ... from the United States until Demo-2 on Saturday. In 2018, NASA selected Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to be the first crew for ...

The Patricia Huffman Smith NASA Museum ‘Remembering Columbia’ Museum in Hemphill works to preserve the legacy of the Space Shuttle Columbia and its STS-107 crew. As part of the 20th annual ...

The Patricia Huffman Smith NASA Museum will honor the legacy of the Space Shuttle Columbia with two days of special events planned to commemorate the 22nd anniversary of the tragedy that unfolded in ...

Discovery returned NASA to space on Sept. 29, 1988, with the STS-26 mission. This flight deployed a satellite and implemented new safety measures to prevent another tragedy. On April 24 ...

The STS-107 mission ended in disaster when Columbia disintegrated upon re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere, resulting in the loss of all seven crew members, including Chawla. NASA’s investigation ...

An annual memorial was held at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex. Every fourth Thursday in January, NASA remembers fallen astronauts.