WASHINGTON, July 20 (UPI) -- Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, filed legislation Tuesday that would award the congressional gold medal to the crew of the space shuttle Columbia.

WASHINGTON, May 26 (UPI) -- Think everything's going up? Not necessarily. Interest rates on federally guaranteed student loans will drop to historic lows again this summer, potentially saving both new and current education loan borrowers thousands of dollars in interest over the lif

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3 (UPI) -- Seven hills on Mars will be named for the members of the last crew of the space shuttle Columbia, NASA announced Tuesday.

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla., Feb. 28 (UPI) -- Less than 10 minutes before their deaths, the astronauts aboard shuttle Columbia chatted breezily as they checked their spacesuits, put on their gloves and marveled at the flashes of light outside their windows as the spaceship encountered Earth's atmosph