The Columbia memorial is not far from a monument honoring the seven crew members who died aboard the shuttle Challenger in 1986. Astronauts who died in the 1967 Apollo 1 fire are also buried at ...

Thousands of workers who launched Columbia on its final mission gathered Friday on what would have been its landing strip to remember the shuttle's seven-member crew _ "a wonderful tapestry of ...

1) Depressurization of the crew module at or shortly after orbiter breakup. The crew’s suits were not configured for vacuum at the time of the disaster – meaning they were not airtight.

The first shuttle crew to fly since the Columbia tragedy paid tribute to their fallen colleagues Thursday with a moving ode to the spirit of exploration. Speaking in turn, the nine astronauts ...

Columbia Shuttle Crew Not Told of Possible Problem With Reentry. Space Shuttle program manager struggled with the decision. By ABC News. January 31, 2013, 11:24 AM.

Some of the STS-107 crew are pictured prior to their sleep shift in bunk beds on the middeck of Space Shuttle Columbia on January 20, 2003. From left are Clark, Husband and Chawla.

When NASA’s Columbia shuttle launched on January 16, 2003, it carried a crew of seven astronauts who had spent nearly three years getting to know one another before venturing on a 16-day science ...

Some of the STS-107 crew are pictured prior to their sleep shift in bunk beds on the middeck of Space Shuttle Columbia on January 20, 2003. From left are Clark, Husband and Chawla.