David M. Brown, a Space Shuttle Columbia astronaut, sent a moving email shortly before the shuttle’s reentry tragedy. His ...

Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew of seven astronauts were lost after the shuttle broke apart during reentry. Columbia was just 16 minutes from landing at the Kennedy Space Center, when Mission ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — It was a cold morning in Florida when the last words heard by any of Space Shuttle Challenger’s crew were ...

On April 14, 1981, the first space shuttle mission returned to Earth after a two-day flight in space. The space shuttle ...

TYLER, Texas (KLTV) - A Tyler doctor’s photo landed him in the history books when he captured one of our nation’s tragedies. Dr. Scott Lieberman captured the space Shuttle Columbia breakup, an image ...

In 1986, an experiment conceived by an Appleton high school student resulted in the first and only paper ever made in space. The experiment, flown on the space shuttle Columbia, tested if paper made ...

As the crowd trickled into the auditorium at Johnson Space Center, NASA pride was everywhere. Logos adorned T-shirts and polo shirts, lapel pins and hats. One man opened his sport coat to reveal a ...

The space shuttle system has been modified many times since the first launch of space shuttle Columbia in 1981. During the 1980s, major upgrade programs were established to respond to problems and ...