Aerospace engineer Roger Boisjoly, who warned that launching NASA's space shuttle Challenger in cold weather could be disastrous, has died of cancer at the age of 73.

Images: Zuma Press/Getty Images/Washington Post Composite: Mark Kelly The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was preparing the space shuttle Challenger for launch on the morning of Jan ...

Boisjoly, who tried to [...] For anyone of TV viewing age in January 1986, the image of the space shuttle Challenger exploding over the Atlantic just moments after liftoff is an indelible one.

The night before the 1986 explosion, Boisjoly and four others argued that joints in the shuttle's boosters couldn't withstand a cold-weather launch. Roger Boisjoly obituary: Engineer tried to stop ...

Two men, Bob Ebeling and Roger Boisjoly, knew the fate of the Challenger months before its tragic launch, yet NASA went ahead with the mission. Their dire prediction changed their lives.

Roger Boisjoly, who has died aged 73, was an engineer whose warnings of catastrophe were ignored on the eve of the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster, which killed seven crew members, including the ...

NEPHI, Utah – Roger Boisjoly, a NASA contractor who repeatedly voiced concerns about the space shuttle Challenger before it exploded, has died. He was 73. Boisjoly died of cancer on Jan. 6 in ...

Roger Mark Boisjoly 1938-2012 NEPHI, UTAH -- Our beloved Roger Mark Boisjoly's time on earth has ended. He passed away January 6, 2012, in Nephi, Uta Roger Boisjoly Obituary - MA ...

Roger Mark Boisjoly was born April 25, 1938, and raised in Lowell, Mass., and he graduated from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell with a degree in mechanical engineering.

Roger Boisjoly was a booster rocket engineer at NASA contractor Morton Thiokol in Utah in January, 1986, when he and four colleagues became embroiled in the fatal decision to launch the Space ...