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 ...
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 ...
The trailblazing astronaut ended her day as the guest of honor at *** reception at the Capitol Rotunda, *** day every bit as hectic as launch day ... American woman to journey into space, soaring ...
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, ...
The telescope's original October 1986 launch was scrapped after the loss of the space shuttle Challenger. When the telescope finally became operational in 1990, it began to return unprecedented ...