A catastrophic failure occurred 73 seconds after liftoff as the shuttle emerged from “Max-Q,” the period of highest ...
Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off. A small team of engineers tried to prevent ...
On this day in 1986, millions watched on live TV as the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded moments after launch, Eliot Wilson ...
NASA's space shuttle Challenger exploded and broke apart Jan. 28, 1986, in the sky over East-Central Florida, killing the ...
Seven American spacefarers were killed in a tragic event 40 years ago today that has become widely known as the Challenger disaster.
This week marks forty years since seven astronauts were killed in the space shuttle Challenger accident in 1986. Families of ...
Christa McAuliffe trained to be the first teacher in space, preparing to turn a shuttle cabin into the most-watched classroom in America. Forty years after she and six crewmates died when Challenger ...
NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, was a complex and ambitious project that pushed the boundaries of ...