National Aeronautics and Space Administration

NASA was America’s crown jewel. After the Columbia disaster, things were never the same again

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Editor’s note: Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in the Humanities and professor of history at Rice University. He is the author of “American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race.” The CNN Original Series “Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight” reveals the events that ultimately led to disaster. The four-part … Read more

NASA was America’s crown jewel. After the Columbia disaster, things were never the same again

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Editor’s Note: Douglas Brinkley is the Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in the Humanities and professor of history at Rice University. He is the author of “American Moonshot: John F. Kennedy and the Great Space Race.” The CNN Original Series “Space Shuttle Columbia: The Final Flight” reveals the events that ultimately led to disaster. The four-part … Read more