Feb. 1 marks the 15th anniversary of the Columbia disaster. Many people have forgotten it. Tens of thousands of others, who helped literally pick up its pieces, never will.

As exhaustively as the Columbia disaster was investigated and reported on, Leinbach found none of the more than 100 people he and Ward interviewed for Bringing Columbia Home knew the whole story.

The first sign of a problem came just after 7:51 a.m. 237,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean as the seven-member crew of the shuttle Columbia sped toward a landing at the Kennedy Space Center in ...

In “Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space,” Adam Higginbotham provides the most definitive account of the explosion that took the lives of the seven-person crew.

Less than two minutes after Columbia launched on Jan. 16, 2003, a piece of foam broke off from the external tank. The foam chunk hit and damaged a wing, ultimately leading to the disaster.

7:15:30 (EI-1719) – Husband and McCool executed the de-orbit burn using Columbia's two Orbital Maneuvering System engines. The Orbiter was upside down and tail-first over the Indian Ocean at an ...

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 ...

Columbia was the oldest shuttle to fly in orbit. When it took off on its 28th flight on January 16, 2003 for a 16-day mission to carry out experiments it had been in operation for over 20 years.

As exhaustively as the Columbia disaster was investigated and reported on, Leinbach found none of the more than 100 people he and Ward interviewed for "Bringing Columbia Home" knew the whole story.