Rendering of the Space Shuttle performing a self-scan with the laser depth camera. Credit: NASA It’s impossible to say if knowing the full extent of the damage to Columbia’s wing would have ...

On February 1, 2003, tragedy struck the space shuttle Columbia, as earlier damage to the craft's left wing caused the shuttle ...

Investigators trying to figure out what destroyed space shuttle Columbia have immediately focused on its left wing. There is the possibility that its thermal tiles were damaged far more seriously ...

But this is the stuff that cracked a hole in the leading edge of the space shuttle Columbia's wing, resulting in the vehicle's disintegration and the death of all seven of its crew on February 1 ...

When Space Shuttle Columbia launched in January 2003, a piece of foam the size of a briefcase broke off from the shuttle's external fuel tank and hit the left wing. Some shuttle engineers worried ...

The shuttle main engine is the most ... It was a piece of this foam that broke away during Columbia’s ascent and damaged the leading edge of the left wing, creating the condition that led ...

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A NASA report on the last minutes of Space Shuttle Columbia ... gases to burn the wing and destroy the spacecraft. The oldest orbiter in the fleet, Columbia had just ...

Nick Charles: On April 14th, the Space Shuttle Columbia touched down on a desert strip in California, beginning a new age in space. Bob Foss relives that magic moment … Bob Foss: "The nose wheel ...

STS-1, better known as the space shuttle Columbia, left NASA’s Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on 12 April 1981, and just over two days later came down to land at Edwards Air Force Base in ...