Abstract: The Challenger and Columbia Space Shuttle accidents are combined in this appendix. While the proximate physical causes of the two accidents are different—an O-ring failure in Challenger and ...

(This practice mostly ceased after the Challenger shuttle explosion of ... which developed the Buran's body, said the goal was to send 30 tons to space and return 20 tons to Earth.

In 1986 he somewhat reluctantly agreed to join the Rogers Commission, whose task was to investigate the Challenger disaster. The space shuttle Challenger had exploded a little more than a minute ...

A large section of the destroyed space shuttle Challenger has been found buried in sand at the ... officials said. The fragment remains on the ocean floor just off the Florida coast near Cape ...

Icons of space flight they undoubtedly are, but the shuttle programme has been marked by very public tragedy. On 28 January 1986, Challenger was set to carry the first American civilian into space.

Astronauts Story Musgrave (left) and Don Peterson float in the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger On 7 April ... "A flight-ready suit remains years away from completion," the report notes ...

A new documentary focuses more on how Christa McAuliffe still inspires others as a teacher and less on her fate aboard the ...

who was chosen to go into space in 1986 and teach a class on board the Challenger space shuttle. She and her fellow crew ...

A model of the space shuttle Challenger, at right, floats above a portrait of NASA’s first teacher in space Christa McAuliffe at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024, in ...