space shuttle columbia

The space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled for its final mission into space this morning before it’s retired leaving just one more mission for the shuttle program this summer.  After more than 30 years it’ll bring an end to a fleet of spacecraft that have been called the finest and most versatile ever built. Columbia was...

It was just last week we remembered the crew of the space shuttle Challenger who were killed in 1986 when the fuel tank exploded a minute after launch.  Today is the 8th anniversary of the break-up of the space shuttle Columbia as the crew was preparing to land. The two week mission for the Columbia crew of seven astronauts was doomed just 80 seconds after lift-off when a piece of foam fell from t