Space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in flames over Texas minutes before it was to land in Florida. TV footage showed what appeared to be falling debris, as Nasa declared an emergency and warned ...

Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates in the skies over East Texas, causing mass confusion.

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 ...

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 ...

Amarillo-native Rick Husband and six other astronauts were killed 22-years-ago when Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart over Texas during re-entry. Born in 1957, Husband graduated from Amarillo ...