CAPE CANAVERAL — From his Launch Control Center console 15 years ago on Feb. 1,2003 Mike Leinbach watched the shuttle orbiter's engines fire to start its drop from orbit. Columbia and its seven ...

Twenty years ago, Space Shuttle Columbia lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center for the last time. It was on its return to Earth, after 16 days in space, that the shuttle broke apart, killing ...

Space Shuttle Columbia Launch 461 Views Program ID: 174669-1 Category: Public Affairs Event Format: Public Affairs Event Location: Kennedy Space Center, Florida, United States First Aired: Jan 16 ...

From the archives: Watch CBS News coverage of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster on Feb. 1, 2003, in the video above. Twenty years ago this Wednesday — on Feb. 1, 2003, at 8:48:39 a.m. EST ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. | A redesigned fuel tank for NASA's first post-Columbia launch emerged from a darkened barge into the morning sunlight Thursday, inspiring dozens of space shuttle workers who ...

On April 12, 1981, 20 years to the day after Yuri Gagarin blasted into space, John Young and Robert Crippen lay on their backs inside the flight deck of the space shuttle Columbia, by far the most ...

Columbia shot off its oceanside launch pad and into a clear sky at 10:39 a.m. On board were seven astronauts, including Ilan Ramon, a colonel in Israel's air force and a former fighter pilot.

NASA today indefinitely postponed the July 19 launch of the shuttle Columbia on a 16-day research mission that was to feature the first space flight of an Israeli astronaut, while shuttle ...

Columbia and its seven astronauts were coming home. As launch director, Leinbach had given the final “go” for the STS-107 mission to blast off 16 days earlier.

Columbia and its seven astronauts were coming home. As launch director, Leinbach had given the final “go” for the STS-107 mission to blast off 16 days earlier.