Following its return to Earth after a 16-day space mission, the Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart on its journey back into the Earth's atmosphere on Feb. 1, 2003. All seven crew members were killed.

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 ...

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 ...