all seven crew members were lost in this tragedy. While the Space Shuttle, officially known as the Space Transportation System (STS) would fly again after the Columbia disaster, even the program ...

The Columbia disaster came one week after the 17th anniversary of the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger ... flights affects the three-man crew of the international space station, which ...

Mattingly also flew with Henry "Hank" Hartsfield on Space Shuttle Columbia for STS-4 in 1982. Along with Mattingly, the crew comprised ... easily have mirrored the Challenger disaster a year ...

"The morning of the Columbia accident ... after the Challenger accident, there was no space station to offer shelter and no second shuttle ready to rescue him and his crew.

That includes the Challenger’s crew of astronauts Michael J ... with his family for the return of his father Ilan on Space ...

Another section of the report focused on the pressure suits used by the space shuttle crew on launch and ... begun by the crews of Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia, we help to give meaning ...

Over 30 years, 135 flights were made by five shuttles: Columbia, Challenger ... into space. Christa McAuliffe was killed along with another six NASA crew members when the shuttle broke up 73 ...

NASA marked the 20th anniversary of the space shuttle ... remember not only Columbia’s crew of seven, but the 18 other astronauts killed in the line of duty. NASA’s two shuttle accidents ...

Seventeen astronauts were lost in the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. The crew of Apollo 1 during training in Florida in January 1967. From left, Virgil "Gus ...

The 17th launch of the space shuttle took place 40 years ago today, kicking off the Spacelab 3 mission (STS-51B). [...] ...

It was 28 January 1986, and the Space Shuttle Challenger was gearing up for take off. The crew had been taken twenty stories up the launch tower in a lift, with all seven members dressed in their ...

Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS), the Faint Object Camera (FOC), the Faint ...