Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore were supposed to be on the International Space Station for eight days. They've now been there ...

The Columbia disaster occurred on Feb. 1, 2003, when the space shuttle Columbia broke apart during atmospheric reentry. That was determined to be caused by a large piece of foam falling from the ...

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 ...

Nick Charles: On April 14th, the Space Shuttle Columbia touched down on a desert strip in California, beginning a new age in space. Bob Foss relives that magic moment … Bob Foss: "The nose wheel ...

We talked to retired astronaut Joan Higginbotham, the third Black woman to ever go into space, about her inspiring journey.

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 ...

Nozzle 2005 flew on the first five flights of the space shuttle Columbia, and nozzle 2020 was used on Challenger's fifth through ninth launches. (The third nozzle was a development unit.) ...

Like many other early Baby Boomers, I have been periodically in awe of our various space adventures since the launch of ...

A Dartmouth project aboard the Polaris Dawn mission aims to address two major health risks of space flight—the loss of bone ...

The crew planned to return home in mid-March aboard the space shuttle Atlantis. Days earlier, they made a ship-to-ship call with shuttle Columbia, flying the STS-107 microgravity research mission.

the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. LOOKING BACK: 20 years after Columbia shuttle disaster, astronauts' legacy lives on at home and at NASA The ...

including three on the space shuttle Columbia. His last flight was on the space shuttle Endeavour. He performed a number of spacewalks during his missions. NASA astronaut Lee Morin flew on the ...