The Space Shuttle Columbia thundered skyward at 10:39 AM on January 16, 2003 from Kennedy Space Center. Little more than a minute later, a chunk of insulating foam tore away from the external fuel tank and splintered against Columbia’s left wing. The incident did not disrupt Columbia’s planned path to orbit; indeed, nobody on the […]
During this NASA Virtual Project Management Challenge, presenters Michael Bell, CKO at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) and Program Manager for the agency’s lessons learned information system (LLIS), Barbara Fillip, Knowledge Management Lead in the Flight Projects Directorate at Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), and Jennifer Stevens, Chief Knowledge Integrator at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), […]
While NASA needed to study Columbia to learn exactly what happened to the shuttle and return to flight, the agency also knew that the artifacts had a lot to teach others. NASA started the loan program, so others could study her: learning her lessons and advancing science for future generations. This is Columbia’s continued mission.
This event was filmed at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on January 24, 2017 with Nicole Mann, Glynn Lunney, Walter Cunningham, Gary Johnson, and Frank Borman.
This event was filmed at Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas on January 30, 2018 with Brian Kelly, Wayne Hale, Michael Leinbach, Mark Kirasich, Kathy Lueders, and Pat Forrester.
A look at the history, evolution and future of Extravehicular Activity, also known as spacewalking. Hear from NASA team members who took part in making this complex task a reality, enabling some of the most impressive and daring achievements in the history of human spaceflight.
By any measure, the X-31 was a highly successful flight research program at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center, now the Armstrong Flight Research Center. It regularly flew several flights a day, accumulating over 550 flights during the course of the program, with a superlative safety record. And yet, on Jan. 19, 1995, on the very […]
