The shuttle main engine is the most tested large ... foam that broke away during Columbia’s ascent and damaged the leading edge of the left wing, creating the condition that led to the ...

When Space Shuttle Columbia launched in January ... firing foam at a replica of the wing's leading edge and blasting out a gaping hole in the panels that normally provide thermal protection ...

Forty-three years to the day after the space shuttle Columbia landed from ... It was just such an occurrence that left a hole in the leading edge of Columbia's left wing, allowing hot plasma ...

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 ...