When a spacecraft comes home without people on board, it is not a cinematic failure but a carefully choreographed engineering ...
Forty years later, Cheryl McNair remembers the shock of watching the Challenger space shuttle fall to pieces with her husband, astronaut Ronald McNair, onboard. “Now what?” Cheryl McNair, now in her ...
David Klaus, a retired University of Colorado Boulder professor, was a 23-year-old launch control engineer at NASA when the ...
Forty years ago today, disaster struck NASA’s human spaceflight program when the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds ...
A reflection on the Jan. 12, 1986, launch of Space Shuttle Columbia’s STS-61-C mission, published on the Challenger ...
Just one day before the Challenger space shuttle exploded over a minute after lift off on Jan. 28, 1986, Terry Hart received ...