Editor’s Note: Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University. He is the author of “American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great ...

A wreath is presented by, from left, Bob Cabana, Associate Administrator of NASA; Janet Petro, NASA KSC director, and Sheryl Chaffee, daughter of Apollo 1 astronaut Roger Chaffee, during NASA's Day of ...

It's been exactly 20 years since the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it returned to Earth, killing all seven astronauts on board: commander Rick Husband, pilot Willie McCool, mission ...

It was 20 years ago today (Feb. 1) that seven astronauts lost their lives during a spaceflight. The spacecraft Columbia broke up during the landing phase of the STS-107 mission in 2003, scattering ...

Though NASA has launched seven shuttle missions since the loss of seven astronauts aboard Columbia five years ago, the disaster still resonates as the space program prepares for its most ambitious ...

NASA is facing the daunting task of self-preservation during the next year as it works to resume space shuttle flights and redress the serious defects in the nation’s human space program laid bare by ...

NASA Replaces 512-Processor Altix Node With 256-Processor Dual Core Altix 4700; Makes Early Buy-Out of Columbia Leases In the past two years, NASA’s history-making Columbia supercomputer has delivered ...

NASA marked the 20th anniversary of the space shuttle Columbia tragedy with somber ceremonies and remembrances during its annual tribute to fallen astronauts on Thursday. More than 100 people gathered ...