When a spacecraft comes home without people on board, it is not a cinematic failure but a carefully choreographed engineering ...
On Jan. 28, 1986, NASA’s 25th space shuttle mission, Challenger, left the launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Seventy-three seconds into flight, Challenger exploded over the Atlantic Ocean as ...
Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off. A small team of engineers tried to prevent ...
The Challenger explosion was an awakening for people in the 1980s. It shook confidence in received narratives of safety.
In the Challenger shuttle tragedy 40 years ago this week, two technologies – aerospace and television – flexed their muscles ...
NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, was a complex and ambitious project that pushed the boundaries of ...
NASA's Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off 40 years ago with six astronauts and a teacher on board. That legacy is being ...