Preparations for the inaugural flight of space shuttle Columbia passed a major milestone at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 29, 1980, with the rollout of the vehicle stack from the Vehicle ...

Editor’s Note: Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and Professor of History at Rice University. He is the author of “American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great ...

CNN is airing "Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight," a four-part documentary about the 2003 tragedy. Forty-three years to the day after the space shuttle Columbia landed from its first mission, ...

The Columbia Memorial Space Center in Downey is expanding its capacity for science learning programs, events, and more. Leaders of the Space Center, city officials, community members, and Downey ...

Missed the first two installments of Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight when it premiered last Sunday on CNN? You can catch up on those hourlong episodes tonight, April 13 beginning at 9pm ...