28, 1986, when the Challenger space shuttle exploded shortly after takeoff ... Challenger exploded 73 seconds after takeoff because of a mechanical malfunction. The disaster occurred live on ...

Hearing her voice and hearing what she stood for and hearing her be a champion for the field of education, I thought, was ...

Sally Ride became the first American woman to go to space in 1983 on board the Space Shuttle Challenger ... a year after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, which killed all seven astronauts ...

(This practice mostly ceased after the Challenger shuttle explosion of 1986, after which the military shifted to expendable rockets.) NASA focussed on reducing space costs, while the Soviet Union ...

Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster**: The catastrophic nuclear accident at Chernobyl in 1986 not only ... Space Shuttle Enterprise – ...

It’s been a while since some KPHO-TV CBS 5 legends stepped into a TV studio, but it didn’t take long for the memories to come ...

27, 1962, and It took the spacecraft three and a half months to reach Venus. — Space History Photo: Kennedy Receives Mariner 2 Model — The 10 Weirdest Facts About Venus — Top 10 Extreme ...

An interesting tidbit about the ship's history is that it played a significant role in recovering the flight recorders from the Challenger space shuttle disaster in 1986. The submerged submarine ...

She had to be hospitalized for eight days and required skin grafts. After reaching out to McDonald's about the incident to ...