A nationwide contest of sorts called the Teacher In Space Project was held by NASA and received more than 11,000 applications. New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe was selected to travel on the ...

The Challenger disaster, a tragic day in space exploration history, took place on January 28, 1986. Just 73 seconds after launch, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded, leading to the loss of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Read full article: Morning Motor Social hosts car meet in Ponte Vedra, donates money to Nemours Children’s Health The Camden County Health Department and Family Connection Camden is hosting a ...

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 ...

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 ...