This claim was, in fact, true. McCandless was, indeed, the first astronaut to perform an untethered spacewalk on Feb. 7, 1984 ...

Twenty five years ago the Challenger space shuttle broke apart over a minute after its launch, killing all seven on board. It was both a tragedy and profoundly shocking event, the consequences of ...

Thirty years ago on January 28, seven astronauts were killed when the Challenger space shuttle exploded just 73 seconds after launch. One of those seven astronauts was Christa McAuliffe.

The telescope's original October 1986 launch was scrapped after the loss of the space shuttle Challenger. When the telescope finally became operational in 1990, it began to return unprecedented ...

The Challenger tragedy was an unforgettable setback amid the hope that surrounded space travel The 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion is a tragedy that defined a generation. Across the United ...

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 ...

The Space Shuttle is made of up of the Orbiter Vehicle, the External Tank, and 2 Solid Rocket Boosters. Missions were ...

the contract for development of the external tank to Martin Marietta Denver Aerospace, and the contract for development of the solid rocket boosters to Morton Thiokol Corporation. Four space shuttle ...

Ron McNair (who later died on the space shuttle Challenger in 1986) and Fred Gregory (who after flying in space, went on to become a NASA deputy administrator.) "All of us knew that one of us ...

The last time players took the field for a varsity football game at Spartanburg Day School, Return of the Jedi was still in ...