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 was 102.

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 ...

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.

The day after the explosion, a USA TODAY story said: "The Challenger disaster seems fated for a place beside the Kennedy assassination in the nation's memory. People will always remember where ...

But it turns out, there was. The beautiful excerpt from the John Gillespie Magee Jr. poem “ High Flight ” that Noonan ...

Those of us who are old enough to remember the space shuttle Challenger disaster can tell you exactly when and where we first ...

28, 1986, at Kennedy Space Center. That date marked the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster that exploded 73 seconds after liftoff. The low temperature in Melbourne that morning was 26°F ...

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.

Today marks 39 years since the Challenger disaster. Thirty-nine years since the pioneers of Challenger “slipped the surly bonds of Earth” to “touch the face of God.” (Space Shuttle ...

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