The Challenger disaster, a tragic day in space exploration history, took place on January 28, 1986. Just 73 seconds after launch, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded, leading to the loss of ...

Andrew 'Andy' Freed is most well-known for being a Purdue professor, teaching notable classes taken by a large majority of ...

Thirty years ago on January 28, seven astronauts were killed when the Challenger space shuttle exploded just 73 ... plan ready to teach the world in 1986. Millions of kids would have tuned in ...

Icons of space flight they undoubtedly are, but the shuttle programme has been marked by very public tragedy. On 28 January 1986, Challenger was set to carry the first American civilian into space.

The story of the doomed Challenger spacecraft and how it came to its gruesome demise features a tragic sequence of events and heartbreaking final words from those on board. It was 28 January 1986, and ...

Just 16 minutes before its scheduled landing February 1, the space shuttle ... Challenger, which disintegrated 73 seconds after liftoff from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on January 28, 1986.

NASA The Space ... enabling the shuttle to carry 3,000 more pounds of payload. During the days leading up to the launch of Challenger on STS-51-L (January 1986), freezing temperatures weakened ...

William Ray Lucas, who led the NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger ... when the Challenger exploded on Jan. 28, 1986, just ...

All five NASA astronauts on the classified STS-28 mission had military ... Delays in shuttle launches only increased their worry; even before the 1986 Challenger accident, they were looking ...

Seventeen astronauts were lost in the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. The crew of Apollo 1 during training in Florida in January 1967. From left, Virgil "Gus ...