NASA’s Shuttle orbiter Columbia is poised for its return to flight on the STS-109 mission after undergoing 2 1/2 years of comprehensive maintenance, modification and processing operations that ...

The shuttle transportation system (STS) cost about $10 billion in 1981 dollars to develop for Columbia's first flight, with the orbiter alone priced at $1 billion, NASA officials said.

S.628 Columbia Orbiter Memorial Act (Engrossed as Agreed to or Passed by Senate) S 628 ES 108th CONGRESS 1st Session S. 628 AN ACT To require the construction at Arlington […] ...

NASA’s shuttle era began today in 1981 as the Columbia orbiter launched into the morning skies above Cape Canaveral. Space shuttle Columbia launches skyward on April 12, 1981 on NASA's first ...

Astronauts aboard the doomed space shuttle Columbia might have been saved by a "simple" space walk inspection, followed by a risky rescue mission using a second orbiter, a key member of the ...

The Columbia disaster: Looking back On the morning of February 1, 2003, the Columbia orbiter was heading home from a 16-day mission to space.

That’s a lot of paint Columbia launched at 7 a.m. on a clear but slightly hazy morning. The spacecraft consisted of a 154-foot tall external tank, two solid rocket boosters and the Columbia orbiter.

To date, about 38-40 percent of the Columbia orbiter's wreckage has been recovered. The remainder was either burned up during reentry or is still where it landed in Texas and Louisiana.