Challenger disaster, explosion of the U.S.space shuttleorbiterChallenger, shortly after its launch fromCape Canaveral,Florida, on January 28, 1986. Thedisasterclaimed the lives of sevenastronauts. The primary goal of shuttle missi...
Weitz died at his retirement home in Flagstaff, Arizona, on Monday, said Laura Cutchens of theAstronaut Scholarship Foundation. No cause of death was given. ANASA biography says Weitzwas among the class of 19 astronauts who were chosen in April 1966. He served as command module pilot on the...
Such findings would mean that in effect similar NASA program deficiencies are directly culpable in the death of 14 astronauts and the loss of two shuttle orbiters worth $4 billion. Experts last week told the board that "the problems that existed at the time of the Challenger accident have ...
Although the exact timing of the death of the crew is unknown, several crew members are known to have survived the initial breakup of the spacecraft. However, the shuttle had no escape system and the astronauts did not survive the impact of the crew compartment with the ocean surface. The ...
The young scientists and their teachers were very sad to find that their insect astronauts had all died at some point before the container was returned to the school and opened. The problem didn’t occur in space,but on the ground after challenger had landed. The container remained in the ...
Christa McAuliffe was an American teacher who was chosen to be the first private citizen in space. She and her fellow astronauts died when Shuttle Challenger exploded on Jan. 28, 1986.
This Laser Could Unlock Interstellar Travel Warp Drives Are Possible—Aliens May Be Using Them The Universe Could Be Eternal, This Theory Says How a Lunar Supercollider Could Upend Physics The History of Pi The Strange Origin of the Hollow Moon Conspiracy ...
astronauts Neil Armstrong and Sally Ride, test pilot Chuck Yeager, and physicist Richard Feynman. What emerged was an appalling pattern of assumptions that the vehicle could survive minor mishaps and be pushed even further. The ...
astronauts Neil Armstrong and Sally Ride, test pilot Chuck Yeager, and physicist Richard Feynman. What emerged was an appalling pattern of assumptions that the vehicle could survive minor mishaps and be pushed even further. The i...
Challenger disaster, explosion of the U.S. space shuttle orbiter Challenger, shortly after its launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on January 28, 1986, which claimed the lives of seven astronauts, including Christa McAuliffe, who had won a national scre