Hailed by 600,000 spectators and monitored by a Russian trawler, Columbia bolted skyward on schedule at 7 a.m., rolled upside down, ... 1981, reporting the first flight of Space Shuttle Columbia.

Russia's new space station module, Nauka, mistakenly fired its thrusters after docking on Thursday. The mistake caused the entire space station to spin around 540 degrees and flip upside down ...

Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 16, 2003. It was the 28th mission for the orbiter, with the STS-107 crew set to carry out experiments over the ...