Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High ...

On February 1, 2003, tragedy struck the space shuttle Columbia, as earlier damage to the craft's left wing caused the shuttle to be destroyed upon reentry, killing all seven astronauts on board. It ...

Just 16 minutes before its scheduled landing February 1, the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated 40 ... lost a series of sensors on the left wing and then rolled unexpectedly to the left ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...