David M. Brown, a Space Shuttle Columbia astronaut, sent a moving email shortly before the shuttle’s reentry tragedy. His ...

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 ...

It's been 10 years since the Columbia space shuttle accident, and spaceflight safety has come a long way — but has it come far enough? Experts say traveling to space is still a risky business, and ...

HOUSTON (AP) -- A piece of the space shuttle Columbia, which broke apart and burned on re-entry more than eight years ago, has been found in a drought-stricken East Texas lake, NASA officials said ...

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 ...

As the crowd trickled into the auditorium at Johnson Space Center, NASA pride was everywhere. Logos adorned T-shirts and polo shirts, lapel pins and hats. One man opened his sport coat to reveal a ...

WASHINGTON -- NASA shook up its space shuttle management team Wednesday, putting an engineer who worked on the doomed Columbia flight in charge of a new safety program and creating new positions at ...

On April 14, 1981, the first space shuttle mission returned to Earth after a two-day flight in space. The space shuttle Columbia safely touched down on Rogers dry lake at Edwards Air Force Base in ...