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Space Shuttle Columbia Fast Facts Facts Space Shuttle Columbia, the first reusable spacecraft, was the oldest in the shuttle fleet. It completed 27 missions; STS-107 was its 28th mission. The Columbia Accident Investigation Board determined that the cause of the accident was a piece of insulating foam that broke off and struck a hole in the leading edge of the left wing less than two minutes into the flight. The investigation into the cause of the break up cost over $400 million, involved more than 2,500 workers, and over 85,000 pieces of debris, equaling over 38% of the shuttle. April 12-14,...

Space Shuttle Columbia Fast Facts Facts Space Shuttle Columbia, the first reusable spacecraft, was the oldest in the shuttle fleet. It completed 27 missions; STS-107 was its 28th mission. The Columbia Accident Investigation Board determined that the cause of the accident was a piece of insulating foam that broke off and struck a hole in the leading edge of the left wing less than two minutes into the flight. The investigation into the cause of the break up cost over $400 million, involved more than 2,500 workers, and over 85,000 pieces of debris, equaling over 38% of the shuttle. April 12-14,...

Cutting nasa's budget and america's shuttle program is coming to a close. let's talk about it with scott pace, a former nasa official and director of the space policy institute at george washington university, tom jones, is a former nasa astronaut, a shuttle pilot and fox news contributor. he is author of "sky walking". a very special guest is with us, buzz aldrin, a former nasa senate. astronaut. one of the first two people ever set foot on the moon. buzz, when you think back to that day 1969 you huff thought forward to this era and what we would be doing in space. did you ever see it the way...