Credit: NASA It’s impossible to say if knowing the full extent of the damage to Columbia’s wing would have saved the crew. There was still no formal procedure for a Shuttle rescue mission in ...

Following its return to Earth after a 16-day space mission, the Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart on its journey back into the Earth's atmosphere on Feb. 1, 2003. All seven crew members were killed.

In 2003, Doug Hurley was the lead Cape Crusader for the STS-107 mission. Space Shuttle Columbia and her seven crew were slated for a sixteen day research mission to orbit. The mission was long ...

The launch was third time lucky in more ways than one. Unknown to the Shuttle's crew and flight controllers, Columbia contained several flaws – as do all vehicles – some of which were about to ...

Just before it disintegrated, space shuttle Columbia experienced an abnormal ... director of flight crew operations at the Johnson Space Center, said remains from all seven of the astronauts ...

When Space Shuttle Columbia launched in January 2003 ... not pose a threat to the safety of the orbiting shuttle and its crew. As is all too well known, two weeks later Columbia disintegrated ...

Shuttle Columbia, with NASA’s first female spaceflight commander Eileen Collins leading a crew of five, successfully reached orbit and went on to deploy the Chandra X-Ray Observatory hours later ...

Born in Karnal, Haryana, Kalpana was the first Indian woman who went to space. In her memory, the first Indian water ...

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 ...