On February 1st, 2003 at eighteen seconds past 9:00 AM Eastern Standard Time, the Space ... the Shuttle after touchdown could only be performed from the physical controls on the Flight Deck ...

despite Columbia, is the judgment that the ascent to orbit is the most dangerous phase of any shuttle flight. According to NASA's risk assessments, the solid rocket motors and space shuttle main ...

After all, Hurley was the first United States Marine to pilot the F/A-18 Super Hornet, and Behnken had served as lead Flight Test ... the STS-107 mission. Space Shuttle Columbia and her seven ...

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 ...

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

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A NASA report on the last minutes of Space ... the fleet, Columbia had just completed a 16-day science mission. Watch the view from the command deck as the shuttle enters ...

Space shuttle Columbia disintegrated in flames over Texas minutes before it was to land in Florida. TV footage showed what appeared to be falling debris, as Nasa declared an emergency and warned ...

Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour. An earlier shuttle, Enterprise, was used for early testing and then disassembled. Icons of space flight they undoubtedly are, but the ...