The first pieces of Space Shuttle Columbia debris, loaned to a non-governmental agency for testing and research, are on their way from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC), Fla., to The Aerospace ...

Every year, seniors in Lehigh University’s Failure Analysis course peer through microscopes to learn the variety of ways in which different materials deform and crack. They apply their new skills to ...

A technician looks at his lap top computer after examining part of a window from the space shuttle Columbia at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, February 14. REUTERS A 1m-wide ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Twenty years ago Wednesday, the Space Shuttle Columbia and her crew were lost when the spacecraft broke up during reentry over ...

HEMPHILL, TX - NASA sent a team to California to inspect material that may be part of space shuttle Columbia's wing, while searchers scouring an eastern Texas pond discovered what is believed to be a ...

EAST TEXAS (KLTV) - A piece of the Space Shuttle Columbia, discovered Friday, could be key in finding out what caused the shuttle to break up. NASA says a large piece of one of the shuttle’s wings was ...

Internet auction site eBay Inc. moved quickly to prevent people from auctioning purported debris from the space shuttle Columbia after it was destroyed in an accident Saturday. Some people began ...

If an impact from space debris was a factor in the loss of the space shuttle Columbia, NASA had been given ample warning. A report published in 1997 predicted a scenario that has disturbing parallels ...

HOUSTON, March 4 -- In the shuttle Columbia's final moments, the tires in the left wheel well blew out and at least some of the vehicle's steel and aluminum structure vaporized or melted, spraying ...