BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Space Shuttle Columbia lifted off for the third shuttle test flight on March 22 in 1982 for STS-3 from Kennedy Space Center. Eight days later, it became the only shuttle to ...
Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew of seven astronauts were lost after the shuttle broke apart during reentry. Columbia was just 16 minutes from landing at the Kennedy Space Center, when Mission ...
HOUSTON (AP) -- A piece of the space shuttle Columbia, which broke apart and burned on re-entry more than eight years ago, has been found in a drought-stricken East Texas lake, NASA officials said ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — It was a cold morning in Florida when the last words heard by any of Space Shuttle Challenger’s crew were ...
The Patricia Huffman Smith NASA “Remembering Columbia” Museum in Hemphill commemorates the space shuttle Columbia that broke apart over Texas 20 years ago. With the assistance of NASA, contractors, ...
NASA PAYBACK: Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), chairman of the Senate appropriations subcommittee that funds NASA, says she's still trying to find a way to "reimburse" the agency for costs it incurred ...
When foam debris crippled Columbia during re-entry, NASA's classified contingency plan outlined a desperate mission to launch Atlantis as a rescue shuttle. Appendix D13 reveals the extraordinary ...
CAPE CANAVERAL -- In an emotional ceremony just a few miles from where Columbia should have landed five years ago Friday, NASA officials, astronauts, schoolchildren and family members of the lost ...