Space Shuttle Columbia
In April 1982, and again in December 1990, the space shuttle Columbia made stops at Barksdale on its way back to Cape Canaveral. In the immediate aftermath of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in February 2003 a hangar at Barksdale Air Force Base, being the closest base to the accident site, was used to collect and catalogue the orbiter's debris before it was shipped to the Kennedy Space Center.