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 ...

PHOENIX--When the shuttle Challenger blew up, the explosion lit a fuse in Roger Boisjoly's conscience. A structural engineer for Morton Thiokol Inc., the firm that later bore blame for the disaster, ...

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.

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 ...

"We're all excited to have you back, and we're ready to leverage your experiences and expertise in the Space Force." ...

Here’s a look at human spaceflight programs in the United States and around the world. Facts The United States ended its crewed space shuttle program with the launch of Atlantis on July 8, 2011, and ...

Icons of space flight they undoubtedly are, but the shuttle programme has been marked by very public tragedy. On 28 January 1986, Challenger ... heat panels during launch meant it was destroyed ...

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 ...

SpaceX's Falcon 9 and Crew Dragon ready for the launch of Crew-10 from Florida's Space Coast. SpaceX SpaceX and NASA are making final preparations for the launch of Crew-10 from the Kennedy Space ...