SpaceX said it was pushing to Tuesday an evening launch attempt that could mean a sonic boom may rattle parts of Central Florida as the company aims to bring its booster back for a ... 6:07 p.m. to ...

Students gathered around model space ... booster had failed because temperatures overnight dropped into the low 20s. Hot gases burned through and caused an explosion of the external fuel tank.

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 completes 23rd booster flight and landing 23 Starlink satellites launched into low Earth orbit successfully Over 6,900 Starlink satellites now operational globally ...

I address you here this afternoon at 11:40 a.m. This morning Space program experienced a national tragedy with the explosion of the space shuttle ... of the external tank and the lower aft strut.

White House ‘Gulf of America’ Fight Don’t Let Other Countries Set U.S. Tax Rates Today is the 39th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger’s explosion upon takeoff, on January 28 ...

Space Shuttle Challenger was about to lift off on its tenth flight. That level of cold affected the rubber O-rings that sealed the fuel inside the booster rockets. There was no data on how that ...

The crewed shuttle mission for ... the first “civilians” in space. A NASA investigation later found that cold weather and faulty O-rings on the rocket’s booster were to blame for the tragedy.

Read full article: INTERACTIVE: The NASA astronauts and employees who died in service to U.S. space exploration January 28th is a Day of Remembrance honoring the lives of the crew and teacher ...

Start by owning your Microsoft apps Freshen your space with this ... protection tiles on the shuttle. This was an important factor, not just for the external tank but on the pad itself.

On this date, Jan. 28, 1986, space shuttle Challenger exploded ... heated gas to leak from the booster and essentially burned a hole in the external fuel tank, basically making the tank and ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle ... from the external rocket tank during launch, which opened a hole in a shuttle wing ...