HOUSTON (CNN) — NASA’s Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off 40 years ago with an unusual crew. In addition to six astronauts, the mission took flight with a teacher on board. Christa McAuliffe, the ...
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 ...
The Artemis II launch on April 1, was a success. But not all launches have bee. In 1986, 7 members of the Challenger crew ...
NASA engineer Kenneth F. Harris II was once one of those kids hooked by the Challenger Center experience. “Challenger allowed me to see what kind of skills that you really needed to be to be within ...
One engineer on that task force, Roger Boisjoly, wrote a memo six months before the Challenger disaster that warned of "a catastrophe of the highest order — loss of human life" if the O-ring problem ...