Some of the STS-107 crew are pictured prior to their sleep shift in bunk beds on the middeck of Space Shuttle Columbia on January 20, 2003. From left are Clark, Husband and Chawla.

Along with an experiment of Ewinson’s that landed in Nacogdoches, debris and the bodies of the crew were found by search parties. “We were able to recover over 85,000 parts from the vehicle in the ...

News; US News; Nasa; Agonising last moments of Columbia astronauts whose team knew death was coming as shuttle fell to earth Ahead of new BBC documentary The Space Shuttle That Fell To Earth, we ...

NASA's control room knew Space Shuttle Columbia could be in trouble - but the crew onboard had no idea until the last minute. On February 1, 2003, seven astronauts were preparing to return to ...

01/31/2023 January 31, 2023. Twenty years ago, NASA's space shuttle fell apart on its return to Earth. The crew perished — but the disaster could have been avoided.