Just 16 minutes before its scheduled landing February 1, the space shuttle ... from Columbia's January 16 launch in which a piece of debris -- possibly foam insulation -- fell off the external ...

During Columbia’s climb to space, a piece of insulating foam came off of ... a vehicle to take crew and cargo to the ISS and bring them back home. This was a task which the Shuttle was vastly ...

On February 1, 2003, tragedy struck the space shuttle Columbia ... the problems of the Columbia were downplayed to the astronauts on board, and no rescue mission was sent. Let's take a look ...

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 ...

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A NASA report on the last minutes of Space Shuttle Columbia cited problems with ... piece of heat-reflecting foam ripped off and gouged a hole in it. During re-entry ...

What a magnificent sight it is out here. The chase planes came right down with it and they're now flying off. The Space Shuttle Columbia, the first of its kind, has just made an absolutely picture ...

On April 14, 1981, the first space shuttle mission returned to Earth after a two-day flight in space. The space shuttle ...

Seventeen astronauts were lost in the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters ... but the spacecraft never made it off the launch pad. An investigator looks ...

It was 28 January 1986, and the Space Shuttle Challenger was gearing up for take off. The crew had been taken twenty stories up the launch tower in a lift, with all seven members dressed in their ...

What a magnificent sight it is out here. The chase planes came right down with it and they're now flying off. The Space Shuttle Columbia, the first of its kind, has just made an absolutely picture ...

What crossed my mind then, when the papers were beginning to fill us in on all the knotty details of the coming space shuttle ... yet come to take for granted the feat of the Columbia.