Downey’s Columbia Memorial Space Center is restoring a 1970s-era mockup that was the foundation for the design of all NASA’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight. Two decades ago, the Space Shuttle Columbia had its final flight in February 2003 when ...

Promo art for CNN's "Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight". Since the tragic explosion of the space shuttle Challenger 73 seconds after liftoff on Jan. 28, 1986, resulting in the loss of all seven ...

Veteran astronaut John Young of Orlando and rookie Bob Crippen flew Columbia into orbit on its second launch attempt, ending ...

The 28th and final flight of Columbia (STS-107) was a 16-day mission dedicated to research in physical, life, and space sciences. The seven astronauts aboard Columbia worked 24 hours a day, in two ...

Viewers of Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight Season 1 are wondering how many episodes are in the series and when each new episode comes out. The four-part docuseries explores the uneasy launch ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Miles O’Brien is the science correspondent for PBS NewsHour and an aviation analyst for CNN. He was previously a staff correspondent and anchor with CNN, based in Atlanta and New York.

Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew of seven astronauts were lost after the shuttle broke apart during reentry. Columbia was just 16 minutes from landing at the Kennedy Space Center, when Mission ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - On a sleepy winter Saturday morning in 2003, most Americans had no idea that seven astronauts were gliding back to Earth after more than two weeks in space. But the whole nation ...