Credit: NASA It’s impossible to say if knowing the full extent of the damage to Columbia’s wing would have saved the crew. There was still no formal procedure for a Shuttle rescue mission in ...

On 1 February 2003, Columbia was returning to Earth after a 16-day scientific research mission. They never made it back. The eclipse won't be total anywhere in the world, but parts of Canada will ...

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

NASA Technicians do final checks on NASA's Spirit rover in this image from March 28, 2003. The rover - and its twin, ...

The launch was third time lucky in more ways than one. Unknown to the Shuttle's crew and flight controllers, Columbia contained several flaws – as do all vehicles – some of which were about to ...

When Space Shuttle Columbia launched in January 2003 ... not pose a threat to the safety of the orbiting shuttle and its crew. As is all too well known, two weeks later Columbia disintegrated ...

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.

Here’s a look at human spaceflight programs in the United States and around the world. Facts The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and ...