Here’s a look at human spaceflight programs in the United States and around the world. Facts The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and ...

The Space Shuttle Columbia, the first of its kind, has just made an absolutely picture-perfect landing on this dry lakebed." Nick Charles: Seven months later to the day, another successful launch ...

Space Shuttle Columbia was launched from Kennedy Space ... "Instead of being 200 or more fps short at MECO, possibly leading to an abort landing or requiring two tons of OMS propellant to make ...

On the morning of February 1, 2003, both Hurley and Behnken waited at the space center’s Shuttle Landing Facility to help the crew out of Columbia after landing. The orbiter was expected to ...

During Columbia’s climb to space, a piece of insulating ... Credit: NASA Certain tasks like lowering the landing gear or deploying the drogue chute to slow the Shuttle after touchdown could ...

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 ...

We have not yet come to take for granted the feat of the Columbia ... the millions of citizens who watched the space shuttle glide to its flawless landing, the newest space exploit was sweet ...

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 ...