Today is the tenth anniversary of the explosion of the space shuttle Columbia, which blew apart as it was gliding across Texas to a Florida landing. All seven crew members died, and Texans were poking ...

Introduction : organizational aspects of the Columbia disaster ; Synopsis : NASA, the CAIB report, and the Columbia disaster / Moshe Farjoun and William H. Starbuck -- History and policy at the space ...

Nearly two-and-a-half years after the space shuttle Columbia exploded over Texas while reentering Earth, a second fatal accident that killed all seven crew members, Discovery(STS-114) launched on July ...

Americans and millions of others around the world are mourning the deaths of seven brave astronauts under circumstances few people can even imagine. Though the specific causes of the Columbia tragedy ...