"It's 13 minutes of things that have to go right," NASA said of the reentry and splashdown, the first with astronauts from ...
Re-entry was where the Space Shuttle truly faced its greatest challenge. Traveling at nearly 8 kilometers per second, the ...
David M. Brown, a Space Shuttle Columbia astronaut, sent a moving email shortly before the shuttle’s reentry tragedy. His ...
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 ...