Twenty-five years ago, Space Shuttle Columbia launched the Chandra X-ray observatory and nearly ended in catastrophe. As the then-ascent flight director John Shannon observed: "Yikes. We don't ...
On February 1st, 2003 at eighteen seconds past 9:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, the Space Shuttle Columbia broke up during atmospheric entry over Texas. Still traveling at approximately Mach 18.3 ...
Minnesota teen’s space experiment flew aboard Columbia in 1982, revealing how bugs react to weightlessness during shuttle ...
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 papers and the ... To the millions of citizens who watched the space shuttle glide to its flawless landing, the newest ...
As NASA prepares Space Shuttle Columbia for its 28th mission, excitement and trepidation build amongst the astronauts and ...
Seventeen astronauts were lost in the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. The crew of Apollo 1 during training in Florida in January 1967. From left, Virgil "Gus ...
Nick Charles: On April 14th, the Space Shuttle Columbia touched down on a desert strip in California, beginning a new age in space. Bob Foss relives that magic moment … Bob Foss: "The nose wheel ...
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