🌅🚀 A Fiery Dawn Launch to Remember! ✨ Space Shuttle Discovery blazed across the early morning sky, lifting off from Kennedy Space Center on its STS-131 mission to the International Space Station! 🌍💫 With seven brave astronauts on board — including Japan’s Naoko Yamazaki, the second Japanese woman in space 🇯🇵 — Discovery carried vital science racks, equipment, and supplies to power life and research aboard the ISS. 🔧🧪 This breathtaking pre-dawn launch painted the heavens with fire and lig

The families of Shuttle Columbia’s crew watch as they launch into space. 🚀 THE SPACE SHUTTLE THAT FELL TO EARTH: 2003 - millions watch live as Columbia breaks up in the sky over Texas, killing all on board. NASA, loved ones and investigators share how an incredible journey ended in tragedy. #Space #Rocket #Moon #NASA #Documentary #Throwback | BBC One

WATCH: These divers discovered the remains of NASA's ill-fated Challenger space shuttle that disintegrated on launch in 1986 with seven people on board. | DW News

On this day in 1981, the Space Shuttle Columbia launched - the first manned, reusable shuttle launch in history. Space Shuttle: Final Countdown explains why this was the start of a new era in space flight: http://bit.ly/1EE0Fh5 | Smithsonian Channel