The crew of Space Shuttle Columbia's mission STS-107 pose for the traditional crew portrait. Seated in front are astronauts Rick D. Husband , mission...
The left side of the Space Shuttle Columbia is seen during launch on January 16, 2003 at Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Columbia...
In this NASA handout photo, a NASA crash investigator examines debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia inside a hangar March 11, 2003 at the Kennedy...
In this image from video, an object is visible falling from the Space Shuttle Columbia during liftoff on January 16, 2003 from the Kennedy Space...
In this NASA handout photo, a NASA crash investigator compares debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia to a photograph of the Shuttle in a hangar...
This image from a NASA handout video shows a close up of a piece of debris falling from the external tank, then striking the left wing of the Space...
The crew of Space Shuttle Columbia's mission STS-107 take a break from their training regime to pose for the traditional crew portrait. Seated in...
This image from the National Weather Service shows a radar image of debris from the break up of the Space Shuttle Columbia February 1, 2003 near...
In this NASA handout, Columbia Space Shuttle debris lies floor of the RLV Hangar May 15, 2003 at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The Columbia Accident...
In this image from video an object is visible falling from the Space Shuttle Columbia during liftoff on January 16, 2003 from the Kennedy Space...
Space shuttle Columbia and its seven-member crew lifts off from Kennedy Space Center on Jan. 16, 2003. The mission would be the shuttle's last,...
In this handout photo from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration , the STS-107 crewmembers strike a flying pose for their traditional...
Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off of launch pad 39-A from the Kennedy Space Center January 16, 2003 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Columbia broke up upon...
In this NASA handout image, debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia is placed on a grid March 27, 2003 at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The one-year...
In this NASA handout photo, debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia is placed on a grid on the floor of a hangar on March 13, 2003 at Kennedy Space...
Space shuttle Columbia and its seven-member crew lifts off from Kennedy Space Center on Jan. 16, 2003. The mission would be the shuttle's last...
The 37-mt tall Space Shuttle Columbia mated to its external fuel container and two solid rocket boosters lifts off from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's...
Piece of Space Shuttle Columbia debris sits on the ground February 1, 2003 in Douglass, Texas. The seven members of the Columbia crew were killed...
Marlin Hughes looks at a 4-foot metal ball which could be a fuel cell from the Space Shuttle Columbia 04 February 2003 that landed near his...
The Space Shuttle Columbia soars from Launch Pad 39B at 2:19 p.m. EDT Apr. 17, 1998 beginning the nearly 17-day STS-90 Neurolab mission. The launch...
In this NASA handout, Columbia Space Shuttle debris lies floor of the RLV Hangar May 15, 2003 at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. More than 82,000...
Launch of Space Shuttle Columbia from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, USA, 4 April 1997. The Space Shuttle, the world's first partially reusable...
Group of people watch as the Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off on January 16, 2003 at Cape Canaveral, Florida. NASA Mission Control lost contact with...
View from inside the Launch Control Center shows Space Shuttle Columbia rolling to Launch Pad 39A, sitting atop the Mobile Launcher Platform, which...
Through a cloud-washed blue sky above Launch Pad 39A, Space Shuttle Columbia hurtles toward space on mission STS-107.
First Space Shuttle Mission launches, Florida, USA, April 12, 1981. Space Shuttle Columbia and STS-1 lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center,...
Florida Governor Jeb Bush , NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe , and Captain Robert Crippen , former KSC director and pilot of Columbia reflect during a...
The crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia for mission STS-107, in the first row, Pilot William "Willie" McCool and Commander Rick Husband , second row...
The handout photo provided by NASA shows an overview of the floor of the RLV Hangar where a small portion of the debris from the Space Shuttle...
Piece of Space Shuttle Columbia debris sits behind police tape February 1, 2003 in Nacogdoches, Texas. The seven members of the Columbia crew were...
Deputy Administrator Dava Newman takes a moment as she stands next to the Space Shuttle Columbia memorial January 28 at Arlington National Cemetery...
This image from NASA video shot by Shuttle Mission Specialist Laurel Clark shows Mission Specialists Kalpana Chawla and Commander Rick Husband on the...
This image, released with graphic overlays by the Columbia Accident Investigation Board on February 27 shows the left wing of the Space Shuttle...
Four astronauts from the crew of the Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107; Mission Specialist David M. Brown, Payload Commander Michael P....
Woman walks away from a makeshift memorial outside NASA's Johnson Space Center for the seven astronauts who died when the Space Shuttle Columbia...
This image from video shows NASA Mission Control shortly after contact was lost with the Space Shuttle Columbia on February 1, 2003 in Houston,...
--- The space shuttle Columbia, with a five member crew aboard, lifts off for the ninth time as STS-32 begins a 10-day mission in Earth orbit....
Residents of gather a suspected pieces of Space Shuttle Columbia debris that fell February 1, 2003 Nacogdoches, Texas. Portions of the space shuttle...
This image from a NASA handout video shows a close up of a piece of debris falling from the external tank, then striking the left wing of the Space...
In this NASA handout, NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe examines a piece of debris from Space Shuttle Columbia April 28, 2003 at the Kennedy Space...
Reverend Robert L. Bush, Pastor of the First Church of the Nazarene, delivers an invocation during a memorial service for the crew of the Space...
President George W. Bush speaks during a memorial service for the astronauts who died in the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster at the Johnson Space...
In this image from video an object is visible falling from the Space Shuttle Columbia during liftoff on January 16, 2003 from the Kennedy Space...
Research Double Module is seen from Space Shuttle Columbia's aft flight deck January 22, 2003 while orbitng Earth. The Space Shuttle Columbia broke...
--- After six years of silence, the thunder of manned spaceflight is heard again, as the successful launch of the first space shuttle ushers in a new...
--- The space shuttle Columbia, with a seven-member crew aboard, soars toward a nine-day mission devoted to life sciences research. Launch was at...
In this handout photo from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration , the STS-107 crewmembers pose for their traditional in-flight crew...
In this handout photo by NASA, members of the Columbia Reconstruction Project Team seek to place a piece of debris from Space Shuttle Columbia on...
In this handout photo by NASA, members of the Columbia Reconstruction Project Team continue to examine and identify pieces of debris from the Space...
In this NASA handout, NASA Associate Administrator William F. Readdy, Office of Space Flight, examines a piece of debris from Space Shuttle Columbia...
In this NASA photo, NASA crash investigators examine debris from the Space Shuttle Columbia March 18, 2003 at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. NASA is...
Sandra Anderson, the wife of Columbia Space Shuttle astronaut Lt. Col. Michael P. Anderson, and her children whom she wishes not to identify, place...
This image from NASA video shows Mission Specialists Laurel Clark , Shuttle Pilot William McCool and Commander Rick Husband on the flight deck of the...
This image from a NASA handout video shows a close up of a piece of debris falling from the external tank, then striking the left wing of the Space...
An official from NASA looks at a piece of Space Shuttle Columbia debris that landed in a front yard of a home February 2, 2003 in Nacogdoches, Texas....
Astronaut Kalpana Chawla, a 41-year-old flight engineer and mission specialist for Space Shuttle Columbia mission STS-107, works in the SPACEHAB...
American astronaut Michael P. Anderson , circa 1995. Anderson was a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force, who served as a payload commander and...
