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 ...

One of the main elements of NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS ... but those don’t make a rocket stage any more than the Shuttle External Tank did by itself. (Photo Caption: Major join 2 of ...

As the world welcomed Sunita Williams back, many remembered another Indian-origin astronaut Kalpana Chawla, who left an ...

Forty-three years to the day after the space shuttle Columbia landed ... Foam covering the shuttle's external tank and its connection points to the spacecraft would fall off during launch and ...