INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — It was an unusually cold day for Florida on that date, Jan. 28, 1986. The temperature was predicted to be a record low for a Space Shuttle launch. 9:38 a.m. was the launch ...

The first shuttle mission of 1995, STS-63 included several historic firsts. As part of Phase 1 of the International Space ...

On Feb. 8, 2010, space shuttle Endeavour began its 24th trip into space, on the 20A assembly mission to the International ...

The Patricia Huffman Smith NASA Museum ‘Remembering Columbia’ Museum in Hemphill works to preserve the legacy of the Space Shuttle Columbia and its STS-107 crew. As part of the 20th annual ...

Records later show the temperature near the right SRB that failed was actually closer to 28 degrees due to its height off the ground ... space flight with five crew members aboard the space ...

The crewed shuttle mission ... blast killed all seven crew members aboard Challenger, including teacher Christa McAuliffe, set to be one of the first “civilians” in space.

Read full article: INTERACTIVE: The NASA astronauts and employees who died in service to U.S. space exploration January 28th is a Day of Remembrance honoring the lives of the crew and teacher ...

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 ...

In November 2022, NASA announced that a piece of the Space Shuttle Challenger was found off the coast of Florida. The artifact was discovered by a History Channel documentary crew diving for the ...

A statement from the Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident indicated the crew probably survived ... watched from the ground below while millions more watched it all ...