Rendering of the Space Shuttle performing a self-scan with the laser depth camera. Credit: NASA It’s impossible to say if knowing the full extent of the damage to Columbia’s wing would have ...

This week marks two decades since the Space Shuttle Columbia tragedy, where seven crew members killed. Twenty years later, we remember Columbia and a famous photo of one of the most devastating ...

Christa McAuliffe was killed along with another six NASA crew members when the shuttle broke up 73 seconds into its flight. In 2003, damage to Columbia’s protective heat panels during launch ...