Congress authorized NASA to replace the Space Shuttle Challenger, which was lost shortly ... Among other career highlights, its crew members performed the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing ...
On Jan. 24, 1985, space shuttle Discovery took off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida on STS-51C, the first ...
An interview with Adam Higginbotham, author of Challenger. The book is a thrilling minute-by-minute account of the 1986 ...
"We must honor their sacrifice by fortifying our commitment to safety and excellence as new generations of space explorers, follow their footsteps." ...
It was a cloudy Saturday morning on the Space Coast when 12-year-old Tal Ramon anxiously waited with his family for the ...
McAuliffe was 37 when she died, one of the seven crew members aboard the Challenger when the space shuttle broke apart on live TV on Jan. 28, 1986. The documentary briefly touches on the tragedy.
NASA's Day of Remembrance honours astronauts who died during Apollo 1, Space Shuttle Challenger, and Space Shuttle Columbia ...
NASA holds a Day of Remembrance to pay respect to the lives lost while working to further the understanding of space. This includes the crews of Apollo 1, Challenger and Columbia.