few know that he played a significant role in the creation of the NASA Space Shuttle Challenger — and its aftermath. After he graduated from Cornell with a mechanical engineering degree ...

CHANTILLY, Va. — The Space Shuttle Discovery has been a prolific reminder of our nation’s space exploration mission at the National Air & Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Fairfax ...

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HOUSTON — Texas U.S. senators John Cornyn and Ted Cruz on Thursday filed new legislation aimed at bringing the Space Shuttle Discovery home to the Houston area from Virginia. The bill ...

It was 28 January 1986, and the Space Shuttle Challenger was gearing up for take off. The crew had been taken twenty stories up the launch tower in a lift, with all seven members dressed in their ...

President Ronald Reagan immortalized those words when he addressed the nation on the night of Jan. 28, 1986, paying tribute to the seven crew members who lost their lives when the Space Shuttle ...

The story of the doomed Challenger spacecraft and how it came to its gruesome demise features a tragic sequence of events and heartbreaking final words from those on board. It was 28 January 1986, and ...

Nothing has been decided about the school named for Ronald McNair, an astronaut who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion — a fact Sue Hann, assistant superintendent of facilities ...

This was the maiden voyage of the space shuttle Challenger. The goal of this mission was to deploy the first Tracking and Data Relay Satellite, TDRS-1. NASA now uses a whole fleet of these ...