Preparations for the inaugural flight of space shuttle Columbia passed a major milestone at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 29, 1980, with the rollout of the vehicle stack from the Vehicle ...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Back on April 12, 1981, the space shuttle roared to life for the first time. Columbia lifted off from Kennedy Space Center carrying two astronauts – a moonwalker, John Young, ...
CNN is airing "Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight," a four-part documentary about the 2003 tragedy. Forty-three years to the day after the space shuttle Columbia landed from its first mission, ...
NASA Television and the agency’s home on the Internet, http://www.nasa.gov, will provide extensive prelaunch and launch day coverage of the Space Shuttle Atlantis ...
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