The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster saw the spacecraft disintegrate during re-entry into Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven crew members in a tragic and preventable incident ...

Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew of seven astronauts were lost after the shuttle broke apart during reentry. Columbia was just 16 minutes from landing at the Kennedy Space Center, when Mission ...

HOUSTON (AP) -- A piece of the space shuttle Columbia, which broke apart and burned on re-entry more than eight years ago, has been found in a drought-stricken East Texas lake, NASA officials said ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — It was a cold morning in Florida when the last words heard by any of Space Shuttle Challenger’s crew were ...

The 40th anniversary of the Challenger disaster cast a shadow over NASA's annual Day of Remembrance event inside the Space Shuttle Atlantis building.

NASA PAYBACK: Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), chairman of the Senate appropriations subcommittee that funds NASA, says she's still trying to find a way to "reimburse" the agency for costs it incurred ...

WASHINGTON -- When the first of many loud alarms sounded on the space shuttle Columbia, the seven astronauts had about a minute to live, though they didn't know it. The pilot, William McCool, pushed ...

CAPE CANAVERAL -- In an emotional ceremony just a few miles from where Columbia should have landed five years ago Friday, NASA officials, astronauts, schoolchildren and family members of the lost ...