Twenty years ago this Wednesday — on Feb. 1, 2003, at 8:48:39 a.m. EST — a sensor in the space shuttle Columbia's left wing first recorded unusual stress as the orbiter and its seven crew members ...

In an emotional memorial service, the widow of the shuttle Columbia's commander recalled their last meeting the day before launch and the devastation the families felt when they learned their loved ...

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 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — 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 ...

WASHINGTON — A NASA top official wrestled with what he thought was a hypothetical question: What should you tell the astronauts of a doomed space shuttle Columbia? When the NASA official raised the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2003, file photo, astronauts aboard Columbia's Spacehab David Brown, left, Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, ...

It's been exactly 20 years since the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it returned to Earth, killing all seven astronauts on board: commander Rick Husband, pilot Willie McCool, mission ...

NASA employees, guests and family of the Columbia, Challenger, and Apollo 1 crews honored their loved ones on Thursday at the Johnson Space Center's Astronaut Memorial Grove as part of the agency’s ...

NASA is facing the daunting task of self-preservation during the next year as it works to resume space shuttle flights and redress the serious defects in the nation’s human space program laid bare by ...

My first real taste of space journalism came on the morning of February 1, 2003. An editor at the Houston Chronicle telephoned me at home on a Saturday morning and asked me to hurry to Johnson Space ...