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

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 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 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 ...

The Space Shuttle is made of up of the Orbiter Vehicle, the External Tank, and 2 Solid Rocket Boosters. Missions were launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There were five orbiters built to ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Astronauts Story Musgrave (left) and Don Peterson float in the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger On 7 April in 1983, American astronauts Don Peterson and Story Musgrave bravely stepped out ...

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