CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Again and again and again and again Mission Control called, first on one radio channel and then on another. But from space there was only a silence that stretched on until there ...
10:39 a.m. EST-- Space shuttle Columbia, NASA's oldest shuttle, takes off with a crew of seven from Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., for a 16-day research mission. Shortly after liftoff, ...
Fifteen years after the space shuttle Columbia and its crew of seven were lost returning home from a 16-day mission, pieces of the winged orbiter are still being found and the debris is now being used ...