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

Judith was born Aug. 31, 1942, in Youngstown, to Tim and Edith Seidner Crosbie. She remained in the area throughout her life, raising her children and working at Austintown Middle School, where ...

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.

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

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.

Yet in their mission, their quest ... which claimed the lives of Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, Judith A. Resnik, Francis R. "Dick" Scobee, Ronald E. McNair, Mike J. Smith and Ellison S.

The Challenger disaster, which occurred on January 28, 1986, remains one of the most heartbreaking events in space exploration. The tragedy was caused by a failure in the shuttle’s solid rocket ...

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 ...

NASA recently paid tribute to the Challenger crew and other fallen astronauts during its annual Day of Remembrance.