A year later, the Space Shuttle Challenger would launch under similar conditions and be lost. Roger Boisjoly, an engineer at Morton Thiokol, which manufactured the Space Shuttle SRBs, later told a ...

William Ray Lucas, who led the NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger ... were watching the Challenger's launch and witnessed ...

This photo provided by NASA shows the crew of space shuttle Challenger mission 51L. All seven members of the crew were killed when the shuttle exploded during launch on Jan. 28, 1986. Front row ...

Thirty years ago on January 28, seven astronauts were killed when the Challenger space shuttle exploded just 73 seconds after launch. One of those seven astronauts was Christa McAuliffe.

By the time of the Challenger disaster, Dr. Lucas was serving as director of the Marshall Space Flight Center ... the coldest it had ever been for a shuttle launch. Dr. Lucas was not present ...

Seventeen astronauts were lost in the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters ... but the spacecraft never made it off the launch pad. An investigator looks ...

After nine months in space ... which over the last decade has snapped up NASA contracts worth $13 billion. Challenger exploded seconds after launch in 1986, and Columbia exploded shortly after ...

Two months ago, Sally Ride was literally in the clouds as the first American woman in space, but ever since she and the crew from the Space shuttle Challenger ... as hectic as launch day, but ...

David Plotz talks with author Adam Higginbotham about his new book, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space ... people on board the shuttle, and more.