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In February 2003, after the explosion of the shuttle two American astronauts aboard the International Space Station suddenly found themselves with no ride home. And things got worse from there.
The Columbia shuttle was scheduled to land at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on the morning of Feb. 1, 2003, after completing a successful 16-day research mission. Joining the families of the ship’s seven-member crew...
Twenty years ago, NASA's space shuttle fell apart on its return to Earth. The crew perished. It could have been avoided.
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Twenty years have passed since the Columbia space shuttle broke apart over Texas, yet traces of these astronauts live on at home and at NASA.
On February 1, 2003, as the space shuttle Columbia was re-entering Earth's atmosphere, mission control lost contact with the crew.