For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy assassination and 9/11.

we’re going to dedicate two new trees for the two other folks that lost their lives in this disaster,” Oates said. The Patricia Huffman Smith NASA Museum ‘Remembering Columbia’ Museum in ...

William Ray Lucas, who led the NASA facility that shouldered much of ... It was the deadliest US space flight disaster at that time. The explosion killed all seven crew members, including ...

In this regard, I think often of my seven astronaut colleagues who died on this day – Feb. 1 – in the Columbia accident of 2003. NASA grounded its space shuttle fleet while an investigation ...

NASA honored its fallen space explorers during ... the space shuttle Challenger explosion in January 1986 and the shuttle Columbia disaster in February 2003. "It is an emotional and solemn ...

WASHINGTON — It's been 39 years since the Challenger space shuttle explosion, one of NASA's most devastating ... of Apollo 1 and space shuttle Columbia, during its annual Day of Remembrance ...

we remember Columbia and a famous photo of one of the most devastating events in East Texas history, taken by a doctor from Tyler. The lives of fallen astronauts and others killed in the pursuit of ...

Moments later, NASA commentator Steve Nesbitt uttered ... to hear safety concerns from lower-level engineers. After the Columbia disaster, shuttle flights were again grounded.