Four-time spaceflight veteran Peggy Whitson had a good excuse for not showing up Saturday for her own induction ceremony to ...

Some anomalies were reported, but Columbia and its crew came home safely. This was the first time NASA landed a spacecraft on wheels, and the success of that landing made the space shuttle ...

Then, upon re-entry and minutes before landing, the vehicle broke apart ... Smith NASA Museum in Hemphill is dedicated to space shuttle Columbia and all nine of the lives lost.

Columbia disintegrated during reentry ... cargo circled over Santa Maria and Lompoc before landing on time at the base. The brand new space shuttle Discovery visited Vandenberg Air Force Base ...

Deemed an “engineering marvel,” the first of five winged orbiters — the space shuttle Columbia — made its ... from space and parachute to an ocean landing. The space shuttle concept ...

that meant landing at Edwards Air Force Base in California, a giant dry lakebed favored by test pilots. The rear wheels of space shuttle Columbia touch down on Rogers dry lake at Edwards Air Force ...

The CNN Original Series “Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight” uncovers ... plunge back home from space and parachute to an ocean landing. The space shuttle concept was a remarkable ...

It was just the third official mission of the decade-old Space Shuttle ... the Columbia re-entered Earth’s atmosphere flying over Baja California, Mexico, and Arizona before landing at White ...