highlighting significant events such as the first space shuttle flight, the Columbia, and its subsequent missions. It details NASA's achievements in reusable space transportation, satellite ...

Hawai’i students spoke with astronauts from Space Shuttle Columbia as it flew over the islands, including astronaut Lacy Veach, who was from Hawaiʻi. They also talked to the crew of Hōkūleʻa ...

Kalpana Chawla, born March 17, 1962, was an Indian American astronaut who died in the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. She had a distinguished education and career in aerospace engineering ...

Nineteen years of development and research led to the first space shuttle, Columbia, in 1981. Columbia and subsequent four, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour, carried out 135 missions ...

The director of 'Spacewoman,' about the Eileen Collins, the first woman to command a space shuttle mission, had its European ...

In 2003, Space Shuttle Columbia breaks apart in the skies above America. Astronauts' families and NASA staff share personal stories of the launch, unfolding disaster and fallout. ABC iview Home Watch ...

Here’s a look at the International Space Station (ISS), a station operated by a partnership of five space agencies from 15 countries. Information on ISS crews and expeditions can be found here.

A former astronaut, Bowersox saw his own space station mission abruptly prolonged. He was up there with Don Pettit, who’s ...

She became a pilot and then the first woman to pilot and command a space shuttle through sheer willpower ... after NASA lost the whole crew in the Columbia accident. Her being a woman is only ...