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 ...

All it took was 82 seconds, and a single piece of foam to utterly destroy a single space shuttle. How did this happen? How did no one notice? Or maybe... they didn't care? Watch to see the tragic ...

The Boeing 747 and NASA's Space Shuttle Enterprise formed an iconic partnership in aerospace history. NASA modified a Boeing 747 into the Shuttle Carrier Aircraft (SCA), which was specially ...

(Richard Tribou/Orlando Sentinel) Harris was chosen as an astronaut candidate in 1990 and flew his first mission — STS-55 — on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1993 followed by STS-63 aboard Space ...

About three weeks later, he was assigned to his first mission: the STS-55 on Space Shuttle Columbia in 1993. During that trip, Harris says he did the first medical examination in space and even ...

One of these was Strauss's "By the Beautiful Blue Danube," which was used during the sequence where the Pan Am space shuttle docks with Space Station V in what has often been called a space ballet.

Harris, the first African American to perform a spacewalk, flew on two shuttle missions. Whitson, set to command Axiom Mission 4, holds the record for most time in space by a U.S. astronaut.