The Space Shuttle Challenger STS-51L mission was expected ... Schoolchildren around the country watched the launch, and the disaster, from their classrooms. The Challenger crew is honored at ...

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 ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. It occurred Feb. 1, 2003. For millions of Americans, it was an event that ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. It occurred Feb. 1, 2003. For millions of Americans, it was an event that ...

“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 ...

It was the morning of Jan. 28, the day of the space shuttle Challenger disaster. Icicles formed on the launch pad and service tower in the evening and early morning hours on January 28 ...

it is with deep, heartfelt sorrow. I address you here this afternoon at 11:40 a.m. This morning Space program experienced a national tragedy with the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

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 ...