to celestial bodies and their surface features. An image taken from Spirit’s PanCam looking west depicts the nearby hills dedicated to the final crew of Space Shuttle Columbia.

“It was actually this part of the vehicle here on the left side where the piece of foam came off the external fuel tank,” said Ewenson. Ewenson said the foam punctured a 14-inch hole into the wing, ...

Remains of all seven astronauts in the space shuttle Columbia crew have been recovered in rural east Texas, NASA officials said Sunday. While forensics experts said the fragmentary remains could ...

Some of the STS-107 crew are pictured prior to their sleep shift in bunk beds on the middeck of Space Shuttle Columbia on January 20, 2003. From left are Clark, Husband and Chawla.

It was a question that faced NASA's Mission Control considered after initial suspicions that something might be wrong with the shuttle Columbia as it was making its doomed reentry in 2003.

1) Depressurization of the crew module at or shortly after orbiter breakup. The crew's suits were not configured for vacuum at the time of the disaster -- meaning they were not airtight. Had they been ...

The Columbia memorial is not far from a monument honoring the seven crew members who died aboard the shuttle Challenger in 1986. Astronauts who died in the 1967 Apollo 1 fire are also buried at ...

(CNN) — When NASA’s Columbia shuttle launched on January 16, 2003, it carried a crew of seven astronauts who had spent nearly three years getting to know one another before venturing on a 16 ...