Cape Canaveral, Fla.? Just before it disintegrated, space shuttle Columbia experienced an abnormal rise in temperature and wind resistance that forced the craft’s automatic pilot to make rapid ...

Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS), the Faint Object Camera (FOC), the Faint ...

After the end of the shuttle program ... plans for a roughly 20,000-square-foot facility expanding the Columbia Memorial Space Center to house the “Inspiration” alongside other science ...

HEMPHILL, Texas (KETK)- In memory of the 22nd anniversary of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, the ‘Remembering Columbia’ ...

NASA marked the 20th anniversary of the space shuttle Columbia tragedy with somber ceremonies and remembrances during its annual tribute to fallen astronauts on Thursday. More than 100 people ...

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A NASA report on the last minutes of Space Shuttle Columbia cited problems with the crew's helmets, spacesuits and restraints, which resulted in "lethal trauma" to the ...

You can now own a $1 gold coin celebrating one of America’s most revolutionary achievements: the NASA Space Shuttle program.

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 ...

When the space shuttle Columbia erupted into flames on re-entry, killing its crew of seven astronauts, criticism of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration grew to a fever pitch. Attackers ...

2003 - millions watch live as Columbia breaks up in the sky over Texas, killing all on board. NASA, loved ones and investigators share how an incredible journey ended in tragedy.

Four years later, the shuttle Columbia lifted off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the first of 135 missions that it and five other orbiters would fly. NASA 905 (and later, another SCA ...

Space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in flames over Texas minutes before it was to land in Florida. TV footage showed what appeared to be falling debris, as Nasa declared an emergency and warned ...