MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A NASA report on the last minutes of Space Shuttle Columbia cited problems with the crew's helmets, spacesuits and restraints, which resulted in "lethal trauma" to the ...

While the Space Shuttle, officially known as the Space Transportation System (STS) would fly again after the Columbia disaster, even the program’s most ardent supporters had to admit ...

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 ...

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

West said that the Columbia disaster, like the Challenger tragedy in 1986, will have “major consequences for the space program.” “People don’t understand how much it took to get into space,” Widness ...

When Space Shuttle Columbia launched in January 2003 ... In the wake of the disaster, accident investigators did a back-of-the-envelope, fairly simple physics calculation and realized that ...

a NASA space shuttle disintegrated as it re-entered Earth’s atmosphere and killed all seven astronauts on board in an incident that became known as the Columbia disaster. As a safety measure ...

As NASA prepares Space Shuttle Columbia for its 28th mission, excitement and trepidation build amongst the astronauts and ...

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Space exploration has been marked by tragic disasters, such as the Apollo 1 fire, Soyuz 1 and 11 accidents, and the Space Shuttles Challenger and Columbia tragedies. These events emphasized ...