On Saturday, May 30, Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken became the first astronauts to launch ... Cape Crusader for the STS-107 mission. Space Shuttle Columbia and her seven crew were slated ...

His latest is Into the Black: The Extraordinary Untold Story of the First Flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the Men Who Flew Her. White’s book provides a detailed account of STS-1 ...

Just before it disintegrated, space shuttle Columbia experienced an abnormal rise in temperature and wind resistance that forced the craft’s automatic pilot to make rapid changes to its flight ...

On February 1st, 2003 at eighteen seconds past 9:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, the Space ... one of the first tasks scheduled for every Shuttle crew to fly after the loss of Columbia was to ...

The first shuttle space flight was in 1981 ... "because NASA borrowed them right after the Columbia accident to use use them in the accident investigation. Our leading edges were borrowed to ...

Reading the first four CAIB recommendations, the ones that directly address the physical cause of the Columbia ... shuttle flight. According to NASA's risk assessments, the solid rocket motors and ...

On April 14, 1981, the first space shuttle mission returned to Earth after a two-day flight in space. The space shuttle Columbia safely touched down on Rogers dry lake at Edwards Air Force Base in ...

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A NASA report on the last minutes of Space Shuttle Columbia ... colonel who was Israel's first astronaut. By request of the families of the Columbia astronauts, NASA ...

CNN Original Series, Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight examines the 2003 Space Shuttle disaster across four immersive episodes featuring exclusive interviews and revealing never-before ...

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