CBS News Space ... with Columbia's Spacehab research module and debate about the shuttle's slightly over-limit landing weight. But there is surprisingly little discussion about the foam strike ...

leading to the same oversight issues that caused the fatal foam strike on January 16, 2003. Here are the failures that doomed the Columbia space shuttle. Like the rest of the space shuttle fleet ...

The Space Shuttle Columbia accident remains one of the most tragic and significant events in the history of space exploration. On February 1, 2003, during re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere, Columbia ...

Space enthusiasts across the western United States would capture dramatic video of ... the foam strike based on what turned out to be a flawed engineering analysis. The shuttle was not equipped ...

Columbia continued to climb toward orbit. The foam strike was not observed live ... which they recycle by adding back component gasses. The space shuttle carries supplies of liquid oxygen and ...

Space shuttle Columbia began its 28th mission with a ... On Jan. 23, the Flight Director notified Husband and McCool of the foam strike, but assured them that because the phenomenon had occurred ...

During STS-107, Space Shuttle Columbia completed 255 trips around ... the hole in its left wing gouged out by the foam strike allowed superheated plasma to breach the shuttle’s protective ...

Deemed an “engineering marvel,” the first of five winged orbiters — the space shuttle Columbia — made its ... control alerting them about the foam strike on the eighth day of their mission ...

In 2003, disaster struck when NASA's space shuttle Columbia broke apart as it returned to Earth, killing the seven astronauts on board. An investigation board concluded that a large piece of foam ...

But the whole nation would soon know that space shuttle Columbia was not going to make ... But during that launch, a piece of foam from the shuttle's orange external tank had broken off and ...

It was a cool Thursday morning in Cape Canaveral as the nation’s first space shuttle was about to make its last ever trip into space. Space Shuttle Columbia ... of insulating foam that had ...