In “Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and ... launchpad fire that killed three astronauts and the 2003 Columbia shuttle disaster that killed seven — Higginbotham's book traces the history ...

NASA estimates that the Hubble Space Telescope has about 10 years of useful life before it burns up in an uncontrolled ...

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 ...

Well, we won't even get into that one. But for Gen X, one event stands above the rest: The 1986 explosion of the Challenger space shuttle, which many witnessed live on television as mere ...

NASA released McAuliffe's lesson notes and practice videos several years after the shuttle disaster. Her lost lessons are now available on the Challenger Center website. Here are the eight science ...

The Columbia disaster came one week after the 17th anniversary of the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, which disintegrated 73 seconds after liftoff from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on ...

PHOENIX--When the shuttle Challenger blew up, the explosion lit a fuse in Roger Boisjoly's conscience. A structural engineer for Morton Thiokol Inc., the firm that later bore blame for the disaster, ...

On the morning of January 28, 1986, I knew I could watch Challenger lift off before getting ... The big three networks no longer carried shuttle launches live because they had seemingly become ...

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 ...

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- A NASA report on the last minutes of Space Shuttle Columbia cited problems ... the journey begun by the crews of Apollo 1, Challenger, and Columbia, we help to give meaning ...

Beyoncé is apologizing after including audio from the space shuttle Challenger disaster that killed seven people in her new song "XO," about a troubled relationship. The audio clip of now-retired ...