It has been 40 years since NASA launched the first dedicated Department of Defense Space Shuttle mission, after which engineers spotted O-ring seal defficiencies that would doom Challenger a year ...

Andrew 'Andy' Freed is most well-known for being a Purdue professor, teaching notable classes taken by a large majority of ...

Thirty years ago on January 28, seven astronauts were killed when the Challenger space shuttle exploded just 73 seconds after launch. One of those seven astronauts was Christa McAuliffe.

NASA The Space Shuttles's first ... enabling the shuttle to carry 3,000 more pounds of payload. During the days leading up to the launch of Challenger on STS-51-L (January 1986), freezing ...

The story of the doomed Challenger spacecraft and how it came to its gruesome demise features a tragic sequence of events and heartbreaking final words from those on board. It was 28 January 1986, and ...

In 1986 he somewhat reluctantly agreed to join the Rogers Commission, whose task was to investigate the Challenger disaster. The space shuttle Challenger had exploded a little more than a minute ...

OREGON, Ohio — The Challenger Learning Center of Lake Erie West's Heather Townley said she was happy to hear six women were headed into space for a historic event during Monday's Blue Origin ...

Divers looking for World War Two aircraft wreckage off Florida have found debris from the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster. Newly-released footage filmed in May 2022 shows the moment it was ...

His crew mates inside Challenger would grab Solar Max with the shuttle’s robotic arm and place it in the cargo bay, where it would be repaired on a later spacewalk. In space, however ...

Icons of space flight they undoubtedly are, but the shuttle programme has been marked by very public tragedy. On 28 January 1986, Challenger was set to carry the first American civilian into space.