HANCOCK COUNTY, Miss. – The Space Shuttle Columbia will fly over south Mississippi and Louisiana early Saturday morning Feb. 1, 2003, as it prepares for landing at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

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HYTHIRM Principal Investigator: Tom Horvath: “The Hypersonic Thermodynamic InfraRed Measurements (HYTHIRM) team, based at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Va., was again successful in ...

A memo sent by the Smithsonian said transporting Discovery could swell in price and result in irreparable damage to the space shuttle. On paper, it reads like a riddle: How do you transport a 120-foot ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Peter Suciu covers trends in the world of aerospace and defense. The Space Shuttle Discovery (OV-103) would need to be cut into ...

A common saying often attributed to Oscar Wilde is that "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness," and the latest example of that comes from the space race.

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. It occurred Feb. 1, 2003. For millions of Americans, it was an event that ...

Nasa's first space shuttle ever built. The enterprise was unveiled to the public on september 17th 1976 and *** year after its public unveiling, the Enterprise became the first space shuttle to fly ...

Even in retirement, the space shuttle Discovery exudes power, seen across a hangar crowded with planes and jets at its museum home in Chantilly, Va. Charred and worn from its record 39 missions to ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. From 1982 to1986, Space Shuttle ...