The explosion killed all seven crew members, including schoolteacher ... of schoolchildren across the country were watching the Challenger’s launch and witnessed the televised disaster in ...

NASA recently paid tribute to the Challenger crew and other fallen astronauts during its annual Day of Remembrance. KFC is leaving its ancestral home as parent company moves its corporate office ...

Analysis of air-ground communications at Chicago Midway airport indicates that an executive jet failed to comply with a hold-short instruction before crossing an active runway, on which a Southwest ...

after which engineers spotted O-ring seal defficiencies that would doom Challenger a year later.… The five crew members launched on the three-day jaunt to space and back – aboard Space Shuttle ...

and who later shouldered part of the blame for the 1986 explosion that killed all seven crew members aboard the Challenger space shuttle, died Feb. 10 at his home in Huntsville, Alabama.

A Southwest Airlines plane and a private jet that entered the runway without authorization experienced a close call at ...

None of the crew who fled a capsized trawler off the coast of Norway which resulted in the death of a fisherman was wearing life jackets, an investigation has found. Ronald Mackinnon, from Peterhead, ...

The Challenger 650 cabin measures 6-ft. high, 7 ft. 11 in. wide, and 25 ft. 7 in. in length. A baggage compartment provides ...

Seventeen astronauts were lost in the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. The crew of Apollo 1 during training in Florida in January 1967. From left, Virgil "Gus ...

The space agency honored the fallen Challenger crew, as well as other astronauts of Apollo 1 and space shuttle Columbia, during its annual Day of Remembrance ceremony on Jan. 23. "Today ...

William R. Lucas, a NASA rocket scientist who helped shape the nation's first satellite as well as its first space station, and who later shouldered part of the blame for the 1986 explosion that ...