Folks around NASA don’t much care for this time of year. It was 56 years ago last week—January 27, 1967—that astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee lost their lives in a launch pad fire ...

Today marks the 37th anniversary of a launch that forever changed space travel. On April 12, 1981, the space shuttle Columbia successfully launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center and became the ...

The CNN Original Series “Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight” uncovers the events that ultimately led to disaster. The four-part documentary concludes at 9 p.m. ET/PT Sunday. Upon its inception, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. seven astronauts in flight suits posing for a portrait It was 20 years ago today (Feb. 1) that seven astronauts lost their lives ...

Space shuttle Columbia disintegrated 39 miles over Texas on Saturday in a meteoric streak that rained smoking debris over hundreds of miles of countryside, killing all seven astronauts. Suspicion ...

NASA employees, guests and family of the Columbia, Challenger, and Apollo 1 crews honored their loved ones on Thursday at the Johnson Space Center's Astronaut Memorial Grove as part of the agency’s ...

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 — Six-year-old Laurel Clark has the spunk and swimming chops of her grandmother and namesake, NASA astronaut Laurel Blair Salton Clark. Laura Husband, 32, inherited the singing voice of her ...

On February 1st, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart over Texas and Louisiana as it returned from a 16-day mission in space. The cause of the accident was a piece of foam that had fallen off ...

Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. Space.com NASA's space shuttle Columbia blasted off 10 years ago Wednesday on a mission that turned out to be the last for the orbiter ...