As the seconds counted down to the Space Shuttle ... in was found about 18 miles from the launch site in around 100 feet of water. A description of what happened to their bodies has never been ...

What followed was a frantic search for the bodies of the astronauts and ... The investigation into the disaster found that the Challenger disaster was caused by the failure of an O-ring seal ...

Thirty-five years ago this week, on the morning of Jan. 28, the U.S. space shuttle Challenger exploded just over a minute after its launch from Cape Canaveral. It is an event in American memory ...

The post is suggesting Scobee survived the Challenger disaster, purported proof that ... The remains of the crewmembers were recovered and positively identified.

A challenger ... disaster and the seven others who would be lost in the Columbia disaster on Feb. 1, 2003. There, visitors can see personal belongings from each of the crew members and recovered ...

In January 1986, Jeffery Ault was an employee at Disneyland.The space enthusiast took a trip to Central Florida in anticipation of watching the launch of space shuttle Challenger."The anticipation ...

Both had seen the disaster as boys but could only remember the name of one astronaut aboard Challenger: McAuliffe. Who were the other six? The more they dug, the more they found extraordinary ...

It was found by a History Channel documentary ... marks the loss of seven brave astronauts–fellow explorers–and the Challenger disaster was a tragic setback for America's space program.

NASA/Kim Shiflett On the left, a torn piece of Challenger's fuselage, recovered after the 1986 disaster. On the right, recovered flight deck windows from the 2003 Columbia shuttle disaster.

Seven years after the Challenger disaster killed seven astronauts ... Forty-eight pictures of the wreckage, which was recovered from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean off Cape Canaveral, Fla., ...