While the Space Shuttle, officially known as the Space Transportation System (STS) would fly again after the Columbia disaster ... capability from the launch pad all the way to orbit, can ...

White’s book provides a detailed account of STS-1, the first space shuttle mission to reach ... a sonic shock wave rebounded off the pad and struck Columbia with a force 10 times greater than ...

Space Shuttle Columbia and her seven crew were slated for ... and departed the launch pad. At 10:39 AM, Columbia, her crew, and Doug Hurley’s patch lifted off to begin their final mission.

The ceremony paid homage to Columbia’s seven along with the seven who died on Space Shuttle Challenger on Jan. 28, 1986, the ...

Shuttle Columbia, with NASA’s first female ... variety of last-minute or last-second issues with Space Shuttle Main Engine and launch pad valves, orbiter and Solid Rocket Booster hydraulic ...

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aren’t the first to run late in space, and their 9 ½-month mission falls ...

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 ...

Minnesota teen’s space experiment flew aboard Columbia in 1982, revealing how bugs react to weightlessness during shuttle ...

What crossed my mind then, when the papers were beginning to fill us in on all the knotty details of the coming space shuttle flight ... booster shot of the Columbia. To most of us, I suppose ...