Near Earth asteroid 2002 AM31 passed by Earth on July 22. At its closest approach, the city-block sized asteroid passed 5.2 km from Earth, equivalent... Read more →
Leonardo da Vinci, the prototypical Italian Renaissance man; Jon Collins, the Renaissance man of Space Safety. The International Association for... Read more →
SpaceX's Dragon capsule on a barge after its May 31 splashdown (Credits: SpaceX). On May 25, 2012 SpaceX made history when the Dragon spacecraft... Read more →
A C-17 plane dropped a test version of Orion from an altitude of 7,620 m above the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Ground in southwestern Arizona on July 18,... Read more →
How We Nearly Lost Discovery: Returning to Flight After Columbia
Remembering Columbia
Learning from Columbia
Organizational Factors of the Columbia Disaster
The Columbia Disaster and Space Program Safety 
Columbia And The Day of Remembrance
Sixteen Minutes from Home
STS-107: Columbia's Lost Crew
Timeline of the Columbia Disaster
Columbia Disaster Recommended Reading
Columbia Disaster Creative Works
The Columbia Disaster In Perspective![A trajectory analysis that used a computational fluid dynamics approach to determine the likely position and velocity histories of the foam (Credits: NASA Ref [1] p61).](https://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/fluid-dynamics-trajectory-analysis-50x50.jpg)
Cause and Consequences of the Columbia Disaster
Lessons Learned from the Columbia Disaster
Impact of Columbia Disaster on US Aviation Safety
Remembering the Columbia Crew, One Day at a Time
