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 ...
We talked to retired astronaut Joan Higginbotham, the third Black woman to ever go into space, about her inspiring journey.
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Aged 69, the chemical engineer has already spent more than a year in space. And he’s far from the oldest person to fly beyond ...
A Dartmouth project aboard the Polaris Dawn mission aims to address two major health risks of space flight—the loss of bone ...
after the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated during its reentry to the atmosphere, killing all seven astronauts on board. Expedition Six science officer Donald Pettit (front), flight engineer ...
In 1998, my colleagues and I watched from the Vehicle Assembly Building at the Kennedy Space Center as one of our experiments ...
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 ...
A spacecraft carrying an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts took off from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan ...