Space shuttle Columbia lifts off for the first time ... Yes, they did have ejection seats on the first flight, but they were only useable for the first 100 seconds of flight.

And for the first time officials at NASA will ... perspective on historical moments.” HOW TO STREAM ‘SPACE SHUTTLE COLUMBIA: THE FINAL FLIGHT’ ONLINE FOR FREE If you’re a cord-cutter ...

It was a cool Thursday morning in Cape Canaveral as the nation’s first space shuttle was about to make its last ever trip into space. Space Shuttle Columbia lifted off at 10:39 a.m. Jan. 16 ...

From the archives: Watch CBS News coverage of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster ... data recorder — the first indication of trouble showed up in telemetry reaching flight controllers at ...

Four-time spaceflight veteran Peggy Whitson had a good excuse for not showing up Saturday for her own induction ceremony to ...

The space shuttle Atlantis completed the final flight of the ... still working toward the first crewed mission of its Starliner spacecraft. The lessons learned from Columbia — and the Challenger ...

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 ...

The world of human space flight paused—first to mourn ... that plasma would invade the shuttle's structure through the hole in the wing leading edge. Columbia's last act would be to brighten ...

On August 12, 1977, NASA entered a new era with the launch of the Enterprise, a space shuttle prototype that never actually reached space. But despite falling short of even cruising altitude in a ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Pat Duggins of Alabama Public Radio about the Space Shuttle ... Columbia was lost. And there are astronauts that fly, and there are astronauts who back up the flight ...