5 Ways the Columbia Disaster Changed Space Travel Forever
Perhaps more than any other moment in NASA history, the Columbia shuttle disaster reshaped the U.S. space agency's approach to innovation, changing how it balanced risk with the call to go beyond Earth to explore forever changed.
The tragedy saw the deaths of seven astronauts when the Columbia shuttle disintegrated upon its return to Earth on February 1, 2003, due to damage sustained by the vehicle during launch. More than two decades later, ...