NASA’s space shuttle Columbia broke apart during re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere, killing all seven crew members on board.

There are about three Space Shuttle orbiters currently in operation - Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour, which are all ...

Like the rest of the space shuttle fleet, Columbia was attached to a 153-foot long external fuel tank with two umbilical fittings and a titanium bipod coated with low-density foam.

Just learned the space shuttle originally had a white fuel tank but they stopped painting it to save weight. by u/Klondike2022 in space This claim is true.

This is the incredible moment NASA 's retired Space Shuttle Endeavour was hoisted into place and paired with a huge external fuel tank and rocket boosters at a display at the Los Angeles science ...

Space shuttle Endeavour's giant external orange fuel tank, ET-94, sits alongside two 149-foot solid rocket boosters at the California Science Center on Wednesday. The tank was hoisted by crane ...

Space shuttle Endeavour’s giant external orange fuel tank, ET-94, sits alongside two 149-foot solid rocket boosters at the California Science Center on Wednesday. The tank was hoisted by crane ...

Space shuttle Endeavour's giant external orange fuel tank, ET-94, sits alongside two 149-foot solid rocket boosters at the California Science Center on Wednesday.

It was 37 years ago—on January 28, 1986—that the shuttle Challenger exploded during launch due to a faulty seal that caused one of the solid rocket boosters to ignite the external fuel tank.

WASHINGTON - On February 1, 2003, seven astronauts were killed when the space shuttle Columbia broke apart during re-entry. Columbia disintegrated upon reentry after a piece of fuel-tank foam came ...

From the archives: Watch CBS News coverage of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on Feb. 1, 2003, in the video above. Twenty years ago this Wednesday — on Feb. 1, 2003, at 8:48:39 a.m. EST ...