On Feb. 1, 2003, NASA was once again dealing with tragedy when Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew of seven astronauts were lost after the shuttle broke apart during reentry.

23rd Anniversary of the Columbia disaster ...

David Klaus, a retired University of Colorado Boulder professor, was a 23-year-old launch control engineer at NASA when the ...

Today marks 23 years since the space shuttle Columbia tragedy, in which 7 astronauts died.

On Episode 195 of This Week In Space, Rod Pyle and Tariq Malik talk with Gerry Griffin, former Apollo Flight Director and ...

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It's been 40 years since the Challenger space shuttle, carrying seven people, took off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, exploding in mere minutes.

It was inherently risky, and space exploration continues to be so,” FSU history professor Ronald Doel said, referring to the ...

THE SETTLEMENT. EVERY YEAR, NASA PAUSES TO HONOR THE ASTRONAUTS WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN PURSUIT OF SPACE EXPLORATION. TODAY MARKS NASA REMEMBRANCE DAY, AND NEXT WEEK WILL MARK 40 YEARS SINCE THE SPACE ...

On Saturday the Columbia Memorial Space Center in Downey will honor the 40th anniversary of the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger as well as other pioneering missions. The backstory: The event will ...

The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster saw the spacecraft disintegrate during re-entry into Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven crew members in a tragic and preventable incident ...