The STS-51L crew included: Dick Scobee: Commander Michael Smith: The pilot Ellison Onizuka: A mission specialist and the first Asian American and person of Japanese descent to travel to space Judith ...

Smith, Francis “Dick” Scobee, Ellison Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnik and teacher Christa McAuliffe. The flight was the shuttle program’s 25th mission and the first time a civilian ...

During one of the countless, often boneheaded interviews Sally Ride endured about her pioneering role in the United States ...

On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after it was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in just 73 seconds which claimed the lives of seven astronauts.

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.

Her groundbreaking compatriots were Judith Resnik, Anna Fisher ... crewmembers with ELO’s “Mr. Blue Sky.” Having flown missions during the Vietnam War, astronaut Mike Mullane tells the ...

He became a NASA astronaut in 1980 and was selected to be a Space Shuttle pilot a year later. The 1986 mission was his first flight. Judith A. Resnik was one of three mission specialists on the crew.

Challenger's crew included Commander Dick Scobee, Pilot Michael Smith, Mission Specialists Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, and Judith Resnik, Payload Specialist Gregory Jarvis and Christa ...