Though light, it traveled at nearly 500 mph and struck Columbia's reinforced carbon-carbon (RCC) wing leading edge. The impact created a breach invisible to the naked eye but large enough for disaster ...

When Space Shuttle Columbiabroke apart on February 1, 2003, all seven astronauts lost their lives. Yet one NASA experiment ...

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, the ...

10 years ago today, NASA lost its first spaceworthy shuttle -- and the world lost one of the most diverse crews of astronauts ever to explore space. Columbia launching during STS-1. Its distinctive ...

NASA's space shuttle Columbia blasted off 10 years ago today (Jan. 16) on a mission that turned out to be the last for the orbiter and its seven-astronaut crew. Columbia broke apart upon re-entering ...

America may now be aiming to put astronauts back on the Moon, but for years the United States turned its back on manned missions after the Columbia space shuttle disaster. Its space program suffered a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight. Two decades ago, the Space Shuttle Columbia had its final flight in February 2003 when ...

It was a cool Thursday morning in Cape Canaveral as the nation's first space shuttle was about to make its last ever trip into space. Space Shuttle Columbia lifted off at 10:39 a.m. Eastern time on ...

Space Shuttle Columbia, the first reusable spacecraft, was the oldest in the shuttle fleet. It completed 27 missions; STS-107 was its 28th mission. The Columbia Accident Investigation Board determined ...

A piece of the space shuttle Columbia has been found in a north Texas lake. The piece, which has been submerged since the shuttle blew up over east Texas in 2003, was slowly revealed as the water ...

Today marks the 37th anniversary of a launch that forever changed space travel. On April 12, 1981, the space shuttle Columbia successfully launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and became the ...