Andrew 'Andy' Freed is most well-known for being a Purdue professor, teaching notable classes taken by a large majority of ...

It covers the period from the Russian launch of the Sputnik satellite in 1957 to the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, and features designers like Eero Saarinen, Werner Platner and Isamu ...

The Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986, remains one of the most tragic moments in space exploration history. Just 73 seconds after lift-off, the space shuttle began to break apart due to a ...

The story of Laika, the first dog in space ... even the worst disaster can lead to good things. By 2016, the VLS program was canceled in favor of the newer VLM. Space Shuttle Challenger ...

In this adapted excerpt, he recounts his STS-98 space shuttle crew ... overhead window in the aft cockpit, fingers curled around the hand controller for the shuttle’s maneuvering thrusters.

PHOENIX--When the shuttle Challenger blew up, the explosion lit a fuse in Roger Boisjoly's conscience. A structural engineer for Morton Thiokol Inc., the firm that later bore blame for the disaster ..

Back on Feb 7, 1984, McCandless approached his maximum distance from the Earth-orbiting Space Shuttle Challenger, which saw him totally ... Looking out from the cockpit, pilot Robert L. 'Hoot' Gibson ...

Hubble was built with a number of instruments onboard, including the Wide Field Planetary Camera (WFPC), the Goddard High ...

The story of the doomed Challenger spacecraft and how it came to its gruesome demise features a tragic sequence of events and heartbreaking final words from those on board. It was 28 January 1986, and ...

CHANTILLY, Va. — The Space Shuttle Discovery has been a prolific reminder of our nation’s space exploration mission at the National Air & Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Fairfax ...