Space Shuttle Columbia was launched from Kennedy Space ... Instead, one of the AC buses had shorted out. The affected part of the circuit had been automatically shut down, and the erroneous ...

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 ...

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 ...

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A NASA report on the last minutes of Space Shuttle Columbia cited problems with the crew's helmets, spacesuits and restraints, which resulted in "lethal trauma" to the ...

Minnesota teen’s space experiment flew aboard Columbia in 1982, revealing how bugs react to weightlessness during shuttle ...

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 ...

External Tank Before the loss of Columbia and its seven astronauts ... on or in the orbiter (five), and on the tank (one). Space Shuttle Main Engines In 1995, the power head was narrowed from ...

What crossed my mind then, when the papers were beginning to fill us in on all the knotty details of the coming space shuttle flight ... booster shot of the Columbia. To most of us, I suppose ...