And no tragedy is more indelible than the space shuttle Challenger disaster ... The risk of human spaceflight remains very real. To reach orbital velocity — some 17,500 mph — large amounts ...

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 ...

“It’s the Space Shuttle Challenger, Bob,” he said. “It blew up.” The shuttle? Exploded? For a generation that few major news events had personally touched, this was something most of us ...

Instead, you see a mildly fetching but annoying replica of Earth, a cool reminder that real spaceflight remains beyond ... of the flight that the space shuttle Challenger was lost in 1986.

The dramatic accident of the space shuttle Challenger reminded us all of the dangers of space exploration, but who will remember the names of the crew? In 1967, astronauts Grissom, White and Chaffee ...

The Challenger Seven Memorial Park was dedicated in 1986 to honor seven NASA astronauts who died in the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger. On Jan. 28, 1986, the shuttle exploded just over ...

The park was named in 1986 in tribute to the seven NASA astronauts who died in the Challenger Space Shuttle explosion. The following areas of the park will be under construction until the first ...