Columbia, her crew, and Doug Hurley’s patch lifted off to begin their final mission. On the morning of February 1, 2003, both Hurley and Behnken waited at the space center’s Shuttle Landing ...

But this is the stuff that cracked a hole in the leading edge of the space shuttle Columbia's wing ... only a minimal repair capability-applying a patch or using a kind of caulk gun to fill ...

The Space Shuttle Columbia, the first of its kind ... but by early afternoon, big blue patches of sky appeared and there it was: Columbia gliding to a gentle touchdown on Rogers dry lakebed ...

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 ...

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 ...

His latest is Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Men Who Flew Her. White’s book provides a detailed account of STS-1 ...

Minnesota teen’s space experiment flew aboard Columbia in 1982, revealing how bugs react to weightlessness during shuttle ...

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 ...