July 7 -- — As NASA engineers scrambled to assess the damage to the space shuttle Columbia after its launch this January, Rodney Rocha knew what should be done: get better pictures. The Jan. 16 ...

HEMPHILL, Texas (KTRE) - It’s been 22 years since space shuttle Columbia broke apart across the skies of East Texas. Many gathered at the Patricia Huffman Smith NASA Museum in Hemphill to ...

NASA's Mission Control struggled with the question of whether to alert Columbia astronauts that the space shuttle was crippled on orbit as it began its doomed reentry. Wayne Hale, who later became ...

High over Texas and just short of home, space shuttle Columbia fell to pieces Saturday, raining debris over hundreds of miles of countryside. Seven astronauts perished — a gutwrenching loss for ...