The Space Shuttle Columbia accident remains one of the most tragic and significant events in the history of space exploration ...

It was 28 January 1986, and the Space Shuttle Challenger was gearing up for take off. The crew had been taken twenty stories up the launch tower in a lift, with all seven members dressed in their ...

A statement from the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident indicated the crew probably survived the fuel tank blast but ultimately died nearly three minutes later when ...

Well, today we can say of the Challenger crew: Their dedication was, like Drake’s, complete. The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives.

The space agency honored the fallen Challenger crew, as well as other astronauts of Apollo 1 and space shuttle Columbia, during its annual Day of Remembrance ceremony on Jan. 23. "Today ...

29, 1988, when Discovery lifted off from the space center. Seventeen years after the Challenger disaster, another shuttle and its crew were lost in the skies above America: The shuttle Columbia ...

There were five orbiters built to travel to space: Columbia, Challenger ... and Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME). The Crew Compartment consists of the Flight Deck, Mid Deck, and the Equipment ...

“The crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives,” the president said. “We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this ...

It was so cold on the night of Jan. 27, 1986, that officials at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center feared the water pipes on the space shuttle ... Challenger exploded, sending its seven crew members ...

the space shuttle Challenger broke apart shortly after it lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, killing all aboard. Among the seven crew members was Christa McAuliffe, a ...

Sunday marks 38 years since the space shuttle Challenger lifted off on a chilly ... far in excess of the structural limits of the crew compartment or crew survivability levels,’’ a NASA ...