NASA marked the 20th anniversary of the space shuttle Columbia tragedy with somber ceremonies and remembrances during its annual tribute to fallen astronauts on Thursday. More than 100 people gathered ...

NASA's Space Shuttle program was a great idea in concept, but flawed execution led to its demise. Here are the problems it ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. seven astronauts in flight suits posing for a portrait It was 20 years ago today (Feb. 1) that seven astronauts lost their lives ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University. He is the author of “American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great ...

Over the next 24 hours, you're bound to see an outpouring of tributes online or on the news eulogizing those lost aboard Space Shuttle Columbia 20 years ago. The purpose of these eulogies is and ...

It's been 20 years since space shuttle Columbia broke apart during reentry, killing the entire crew of seven. NASA had high hopes for Columbia's 28th mission. It rocketed into space on Jan. 16, 2003, ...

After the Columbia disaster, construction of the International Space Station froze for 2.5 years, leaving a tiny crew ...

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 ...

Twenty years ago, on Feb. 1, 2003, seven astronauts were just minutes away from returning to Florida's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) when they were lost with the space shuttle Columbia. Like 19 other ...

Seven astronauts lost their lives on space shuttle Columbia on Feb. 1, 2003, due to a series of technical and organizational problems at NASA. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn ...