Columbia disaster - Mayday reports

Astronaut deaths, warming poles and SARS among the more disturbing headlines in science in 2003

NASA changes direction of investigation: apparently the damage to the shuttle wing is not responsible for the disaster

A Russian spacecraft will pick up the new crew members of the space station on April 26

Kalpana Tsaula's husband - NASA is not to be blamed

The investigation committee's summaries this week: the trouble started ten minutes before the connection with Colombia was cut off

The shuttle tires shed light on the disaster * The astronauts knew the malfunction and deactivated the autopilot

NASA engineers discussed the risk to the shuttle during Columbia's last five days

NASA is using a reconnaissance plane to locate the wreckage of Columbia

The NASA director was attacked in Congress for not listening to the engineers' warnings

The film of the last minutes of Columbia was broadcast: the crew did not feel that anything was wrong

NASA: Columbia has begun to break up over California * again focusing on the wing

80 percent of the data in most of the Israeli experiments were saved * The oblique vision experiment was lost

NASA still does not rule out the possibility of sabotage - "sabotage" as they say that caused the Coulomb accident

NASA: It is not clear what caused the hole in the mantle of Columbia

An email from an engineer at NASA, days before the disaster, warned of a problem in the landing gear area

Russia seeks to assist NASA in maintaining the International Space Station following the Columbia disaster

NASA: The bodies of all 7 members of the "Columbia" crew have been identified

Assessment: Additional body parts of the astronauts were found

The recording of the last conversation with "Columbia" was published

A box that monitored the "Columbia" systems and insulation tiles from the left wing were discovered

More than 70 percent of Americans support the continuation of the space program

NBC: 'NASA's computers ordered the shuttle to enter at too sharp an angle'

Columbia disaster - Mayday reports

Astronaut deaths, warming poles and SARS among the more disturbing headlines in science in 2003

NASA changes direction of investigation: apparently the damage to the shuttle wing is not responsible for the disaster

A Russian spacecraft will pick up the new crew members of the space station on April 26

Kalpana Tsaula's husband - NASA is not to be blamed

The investigation committee's summaries this week: the trouble started ten minutes before the connection with Colombia was cut off

The shuttle tires shed light on the disaster * The astronauts knew the malfunction and deactivated the autopilot

NASA engineers discussed the risk to the shuttle during Columbia's last five days

NASA is using a reconnaissance plane to locate the wreckage of Columbia

The NASA director was attacked in Congress for not listening to the engineers' warnings

The film of the last minutes of Columbia was broadcast: the crew did not feel that anything was wrong

NASA: Columbia has begun to break up over California * again focusing on the wing

80 percent of the data in most of the Israeli experiments were saved * The oblique vision experiment was lost

NASA still does not rule out the possibility of sabotage - "sabotage" as they say that caused the Coulomb accident

NASA: It is not clear what caused the hole in the mantle of Columbia

An email from an engineer at NASA, days before the disaster, warned of a problem in the landing gear area

Russia seeks to assist NASA in maintaining the International Space Station following the Columbia disaster

NASA: The bodies of all 7 members of the "Columbia" crew have been identified

Assessment: Additional body parts of the astronauts were found

The recording of the last conversation with "Columbia" was published

A box that monitored the "Columbia" systems and insulation tiles from the left wing were discovered

More than 70 percent of Americans support the continuation of the space program

NBC: 'NASA's computers ordered the shuttle to enter at too sharp an angle'

A fragment of a wing found may advance the investigation of the disaster * Controversial images from the last minute

Was Colombia hit by space debris? The thing that Rick Husband feared

NASA: The piece of foam is not the cause of the Columbia explosion

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