The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...
Bob Ebeling was anxious and angry as he drove to work on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986. He kept thinking about the space shuttle Challenger, cradled on a Florida launchpad 2,000 miles away. Ebeling ...
It was the morning of Jan. 28, 1986, when the Space Shuttle Challenger launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida — a moment that would soon become the nation’s worst tragedy ...
On April 29, 1985, the European Space Agency's Spacelab launched on the space shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51B. [‘On ...
While filming a documentary in the heart of the Bermuda Triangle, a History Channel film crew stumbled upon a haunting piece of space history that had been lost for nearly four decades. The team was ...
The crew was made up of five astronauts, two payload specialists and one teacher (Image: AFP) On the morning of January 28, 1986, millions of viewers around the globe were transfixed by their ...