For millions, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy assassination and 9/11.

Read full article: INTERACTIVE: The NASA astronauts and employees who died in service to U.S. space ... the Space Shuttle Challenger. This marks 35 years since the Challenger disaster.

The five crew members launched on the three-day jaunt to space and back – aboard Space Shuttle Discovery – on January ... have mirrored the Challenger disaster a year later.

The crewed shuttle mission for NASA ended moments after ... set to be one of the first “civilians” in space. A NASA investigation later found that cold weather and faulty O-rings on the ...

“It’s the Space Shuttle Challenger ... The bulletin for the Challenger disaster was no doubt labeled “FLASH,” meaning the event had “transcendent” urgency. A flash was sent with ...

The disaster was caused by an O-ring seal ... would return to space flight with five crew members aboard the space shuttle Discovery. Emmy Award Winning Meteorologist Samara Cokinos joined the ...

Tuesday marks the 39th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy.The ... was one of the seven crew members killed in the disaster. Crew members Dick Scobee, Mike Smith, Ronald McNair ...

The Director of NASA’s Johnson Space ... disaster,” Oates said. The Patricia Huffman Smith NASA Museum ‘Remembering Columbia’ Museum in Hemphill works to preserve the legacy of the Space ...

Space shuttle Discovery and its seven-member crew lifted off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at 7:43 p.m. EDT Sunday to deliver the final set of power-generating solar array wings and a new ...

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 ...