Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster ... from Earth to orbit and back." From the initial flight of the ...

SHREVEPORT, La - The Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart over East Texas ... It had the insignia, I had to fight back the tears. It was sad, something that is still kind of tough to deal with ...

Nick Charles: On April 14th, the Space Shuttle Columbia touched ... reported the completion of most of the Shuttle's objectives and sent Columbia back to Cape Canaveral to prepare for its third ...

The loss of space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, and the Apollo 1 fire bring reflection and inspiration for a new future ...

On this date, Jan. 16, 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia launched on its ill-fated flight on the STS-107 mission. During liftoff, a frozen chunk of foam from the external fuel tank would fall off ...

Twenty-five years ago, Space Shuttle Columbia launched the Chandra X-ray ... Automatically, the B computer throttled back the center engine. Not hugely, but enough to partially offset the ...

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 ...