William R. Lucas, a NASA rocket scientist who helped shape the nation's first satellite as well as its first space station, ...
Space exploration has been marked by tragic disasters, such as the Apollo 1 fire, Soyuz 1 and 11 accidents, and the Space ...
President Ronald Reagan immediately appointed a commission to investigate and report on the circumstances that led up to the ...
The man who led a NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 space shuttle Challenger explosion has died William Ray Lucas, who led the NASA facility that shouldered much of the ...
The strong-willed director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, he failed to pass on warnings from engineers that the ...
The man who led a NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 space shuttle Challenger explosion has died William Ray Lucas, who led the NASA facility that shouldered much of the ...
Those elements — and the climate at Marshall under Lucas’ direction — came under intense scrutiny when the space shuttle orbiter Challenger exploded ... using a Jupiter rocket in 1958 ...
Former Director of the Alabama NASA Center During the Challenger Space Shuttle Explosion Dies at 102 William Ray Lucas, who led the NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 ...
William Ray Lucas, who led the NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, has died. Lucas was 102. Lucas died Monday at his home in ...