Pieces of the Space Shuttle Challenger are arranged in a hangar on February 27, 1986, after being salvaged from the Atlantic Ocean where they were scattered on January 28, 1986, when the spacecraft exploded. Challenger rocket booster AFP/Getty Images This April 1986 photo taken at Kennedy Space...
Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster STS-51L Pictures - LOX Tank Rupture.NASA Seventy-three seconds into the mission, the Challenger exploded, killing the entire crew. It was the first tragedy of the space shuttle program, followed in 2002 by the loss of the shuttleColumbia.After a lengthy investig...
Challenger Needed to Rekindle America's Romance With Space By January of 1986 America was already bored with spaceflight. It was, in part, NASA’s own fault. The government agency had debuted the space shuttle program five years earlier with an aggressive public-relations message that the reusabl...
Editor's Note: This story originally appeared in the February 2016 issue of Popular Mechanics to mark the 30th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986, when all seven people on board the shuttle were killed. Today marks the 36th anniversary. To hear the voices...
avoiding the public scrutiny that overcame us during our private grieving," said June Scobee Rodgers, whose husband, Francis "Dick" Scobee, commanded the 25th shuttle mission. "I'm envious when I look back at Dick Scobee's pictures, and he's so young, and I'm a great grandmother now...
On January 28, 1986, the world lost one of its greatest resources, Christa McAuliffe, the space shuttle Challenger astronaut teacher.
From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishChal‧len‧ger/ˈtʃæləndʒə$-dʒər/a USspaceshuttlewhichexplodedaftertakeoffon one of itsflightsin 1986,killingall seven people inside. Theterribleaccidentwas watched ontelevisionby many people andshockedthe whole of the US. ...
The National Air and Space Museum may incorporate debris from space shuttles Columbia and Challenger in its new gallery dedicated to the soon-ending shuttle program. The display will only go forward however, if the families of the shuttles' fallen astron
For the rest of Janelle's time at Clear Lake, the space shuttle program remained on hiatus. The ball found a home in a trophy case in the hallway opposite the main office, where thousands of students and their parents -- many a part of the NASA community in one way or ano...
My initial dictated newspaper lead went something like this: "The space shuttle Challenger apparently exploded about two minutes after launch today and veered wildly out of control. The fate of the crew was not known." Navias, on the air live with UPI Radio, was watching the NASA television...