Today marks 39th anniversary of Space Shuttle Challenger explosion, which took lives of seven crew members, including Ronald McNair from Lake City.
Not until Challenger, its astronauts and it's teacher in space ... which claimed the lives of Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, Judith A. Resnik, Francis R. "Dick" Scobee, Ronald E.
The flag was among the personal items carried aboard the Challenger by crewmember Greg Jarvis, a UB alumnus making his first voyage into space. Born in Detroit and raised in the Central New York town ...
Astronaut Memorial Ceremony took place Sunday to honor the 17 NASA crew members lost in the Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia tragedies.
So, you just plan as best you can to take care of all these eventualities, and you get a well-trained crew and you go fly.” — Gus Grissom, United States astronaut ...
The space agency honored the fallen Challenger crew, as well as other astronauts of Apollo 1 and ... Payload Specialist Gregory Jarvis and Christa McAuliffe, who was to become the first teacher ...