CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – The astronauts aboard the linked space shuttle and space station began their high-priority girder work Wednesday, a two-day job that will culminate with the installation ...

SPACE CENTER, Houston — Taking a lesson from the Columbia disaster, NASA plans to embed high-tech sensors in the wings of the three remaining space shuttles to detect any blows from debris, an ...

A chunk of foam fired at high speed cracked a pair of space shuttle wing parts Friday, offering what investigators said was the most powerful evidence yet to support the theory that a piece of the ...

There is a long process to get the Space Shuttle into orbit around the Earth, primarily taking place at Kennedy Space Center ...

NASA to Send Wings Into Space. By ABC News. January 26, 2001, 2:07 PM. ... Fla., Nov. 28 -- NASA began the countdown toay fora space shuttle mission that will provide powerful, ...

At a public hearing into the space shuttle Columbia disaster, retired space program officials tell investigators that the orbiter's wings could not been expected to withstand falling debris -- a ...

The Atlantis astronauts uncovered a 21-inch stretch of nicks on their space shuttle Tuesday, but NASA said the damage did not appear to be serious.

Enterprise also served as a source for parts after the Columbia space shuttle disaster in 2003. (Enterprise's parts were used to test out a theory that falling foam had damaged Columbia's wing ...

The final journey for the last space shuttle ever built is complete. Set against the black backdrop of the night sky, a crane hoisted a white shrink-wrapped Endeavour 200 feet overhead before ...

Columbia investigators obtained their first direct evidence in a test Friday that foam debris caused the space shuttle accident: a foam block fired at a wing panel left a three-inch crack.

C A P E   C A N A V E R A L, Fla., Nov. 28 -- NASA began the countdown toay fora space shuttle mission that will provide powerful, new solar wingsfor the international space station ...