With the exception of the mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope, every Shuttle that flew after the loss of Columbia went directly to the ISS. Gone were the days where the Shuttle flew off ...

Space Shuttle Columbia was launched from Kennedy Space ... "Failure of the LOX post was considered a CRIT 1 failure – loss of vehicle and crew 'promptly,'" Hale wrote. Or the nozzle extension ...

A keen supporter of the space shuttle, he’d been director of NASA ... been learned from STS-1 that might have prevented the loss of Columbia in 2003? Yes, sadly, and it’s simply that when ...

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A NASA report on the last minutes of Space Shuttle Columbia cited problems with ... the crew lost consciousness due to the loss of cabin pressure, the seat inertial reel ...

“The loss of Columbia was very personal to me ... The Patricia Huffman Smith NASA Museum in Hemphill is dedicated to space ...

But this is the stuff that cracked a hole in the leading edge of the space shuttle Columbia's wing ... The greatest amount of foam loss, historically, has been from this area.

Soviet Union’s cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in history to travel to space. Lasting there for just 108 ...

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 ...

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 ...

What crossed my mind then, when the papers were beginning to fill us in on all the knotty details of the coming space shuttle flight ... booster shot of the Columbia. To most of us, I suppose ...