This same stunning disillusionment happened on the morning of January 28, 1986, when the American public watched the Space Shuttle Challenger rise into the sky and then disappear in a cloud of ...

A new book details the errors that went into the disaster that doomed the ... McAuliffe and her six crewmates on mission STS-51-L were dead, after Challenger exploded 73 seconds into flight.

“Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space,” by Adam Higginbotham, is a superb diagnosis of one of NASA’s darkest moments, the mission that ended in an explosion ...

Mary Cleave, the NASA astronaut who in 1989 became the first woman to fly on a space shuttle mission after the Challenger disaster ... she served on NASA mission control’s CapCom — or ...

Their mission ... Columbia disaster had a substantial impact on NASA, as did two other major disasters: the Apollo 1, which caught fire during a pre-launch test in 1967, and the Challenger ...

Marshall Space Flight Center also came to control three of the primary elements ... under intense scrutiny when the space shuttle orbiter Challenger exploded Jan. 28, 1986, shortly after launch ...

This same stunning disillusionment happened on the morning of January 28, 1986, when the American public watched the Space Shuttle Challenger ... that Mission Control would give commands wisely ...

Mary Cleave, the NASA astronaut who in 1989 became the first woman to fly on a space shuttle mission after the Challenger disaster ... she served on NASA mission control's CapCom - or capsule ...