The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...
On the morning of January 28, 1986, seven crew members were killed when the space shuttle Challenger broke apart a little over a minute after it launched. Those killed included five NASA astronauts, ...
Todd Halvorson, a renowned space journalist who covered the shuttle era for FLORIDA TODAY, has died at age 68.
McAuliffe was a high school teacher from New Hampshire who was to be the first civilian and American teacher in space. She was selected as part of the Teacher in Space program. Her inclusion on the ...
How many times does a single event define a decade all by itself? In recent memory, it’s only really happened a couple of times, once on September 11th, 2001, and once more precisely 40 years to this ...
NASA's Space Shuttle program was a great idea in concept, but flawed execution led to its demise. Here are the problems it ...
New Hampshire couldn't have been prouder than in the days and weeks preceding the launch of Space Shuttle Challenger Mission 51L. Concord's own Krysta McAuliffe was to orbit the Earth with six ...
Forty years ago today, Americans were stunned, shocked and saddened when the Challenger space shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff on a cold, cloudless day in Florida. A booster leak ignited the ...
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