At least one crewmember was alive and pushing buttons for half a minute after a first loud alarm sounded, as he futilely tried to right Columbia during that disastrous day Feb. 1, 2003.

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 ...

WASHINGTON ? NASA?s overconfident management and inattention to safety doomed Columbia every bit as much as the chunk of foam that struck the shuttle with deadly force, investigators concluded ...

NASA has told the more than 100 people who work at its Goddard Institute for Space Studies that they have to leave Armstrong Hall, a Columbia University-owned building at Broadway and West 112th ...