Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew of seven astronauts were lost after the shuttle broke apart during reentry. Columbia was just 16 minutes from landing at the Kennedy Space Center, when Mission ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The fretting about Discovery’s liftoff focused on foam insulation covering its fuel tank. But in the end, poor weather scotched Saturday’s much-anticipated space shuttle launch ...

MIAMI — NASA says the insulation surrounding the space shuttle Columbia's external fuel tank was water proof, but experts say a crack could have allowed heavy rains or humid air to settle beneath the ...

All it took was 82 seconds, and a single piece of foam to utterly destroy a single space shuttle. How did this happen? How did no one notice? Or maybe... they didn't care? Watch to see the tragic ...

CAPE CANAVERAL ” Discovery and seven astronauts blasted into orbit Tuesday on America’s first manned space shot since the 2003 Columbia disaster, ending a painful, 2 1/2-year shutdown devoted to ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A full year after the Columbia tragedy, NASA has finally determined how and why the large piece of foam insulation that doomed the spacecraft broke off from the fuel tank at ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Sunday marks the 23rd anniversary of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster that killed seven crew members, including Lubbock’s own Willie McCool. PREVIOUS STORY: Willie McCool’s ...