Inside NASA’s giant rocket garage — the Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB). This video covers the cranes, platforms, and crawler ...

Cape Canaveral, Fla.? Just before it disintegrated, space shuttle Columbia experienced an abnormal rise in temperature and wind resistance that forced the craft’s automatic pilot to make rapid ...

NASA LAST DECEMBER, THE EXTERNAL TANK THAT WILL SOON THUNDER OFF THE LAUNCH PAD bolted to the space shuttle Discovery ... or could. The Vehicle Assembly Building at Michoud is so vast it doesn ...

When Space Shuttle Columbia launched in January 2003, a piece of foam the size of a briefcase broke off from the shuttle's external fuel tank and hit the left wing. Some shuttle engineers worried ...

Just 16 minutes before its scheduled landing February 1, the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated 40 miles above Earth, killing its crew of seven astronauts. Debris from the shuttle was scattered ...

Nick Charles: On April 14th, the Space Shuttle Columbia touched down on a desert strip in California, beginning a new age in space. Bob Foss relives that magic moment … Bob Foss: "The nose wheel ...

What makes atmospheric re-entry so dangerous? This detailed breakdown explores how NASA engineered the Space Shuttle to survive a descent through superheated plasma at hypersonic speeds. The video ...

Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS), the Faint Object Camera (FOC), the Faint ...

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A NASA report on the last minutes of Space Shuttle Columbia cited problems with the crew's helmets, spacesuits and restraints, which resulted in "lethal trauma" to the ...

NASA marked the 20th anniversary of the space shuttle Columbia tragedy with somber ceremonies and remembrances during its annual tribute to fallen astronauts on Thursday. More than 100 people ...