Forty years ago, the NASA space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members. Among the seven crew members were five NASA astronauts, as well as a payload ...
Spectators in the VIP area at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, watch as the space shuttle Challenger lifts off Jan. 28, 1986. The shuttle exploded 73 seconds after launch. (Bruce ...
Author Adam Higginbotham joins John Williams to discuss his book, ‘Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space.’ Adam talks about what makes him interested in these types of ...
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 ...
Seven astronauts were killed in the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster. Because a teacher was aboard, millions of schoolchildren watched the event live in school. Forty years later, many of those ...