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Sharon Christa McAuliffe (née Corrigan; September 2, 1948 – January 28, 1986) was an American teacher and astronaut from Concord, New Hampshire who died on the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where she was serving as a payload specialist.
USA TODAY's page one with the Challenger space shuttle explosion on Jan. 29, 1986. A second space shuttle disaster. Seventeen years after the Challenger disaster, another shuttle and its crew were ...
The space agency confirmed Thursday that a 20-foot segment of the Challenger was discovered earlier this year off the Florida coast by divers who were searching for wreckage of missing World War ...
In the years immediately after the Challenger disaster, several books were published describing the factors and causes of the accident and the subsequent investigation and changes. In 1987, Malcolm McConnell, a journalist and a witness of the disaster, published Challenger–A Major Malfunction: A True Story of Politics, Greed, and the Wrong ...
The following timeline provides a detailed list of the major events of the launch of STS-51-L, culminating in the destruction of Challenger. [4] The list also contains a transcript from the shuttle's Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR), from ignition of the main engines to T+73 seconds.
A Dodge Challenger in Nampa, Idaho went flying into the air after apparently striking a berm at a high rate of speed, destroying one home's chimney before landing on a second home's roof.
WASHINGTON – Investigators on Friday worked to piece together what exactly led to the collision of a passenger plane and a U.S. Army helicopter that killed 67 people as families, officials and ...
The aircraft, a Bombardier Challenger 604, was destroyed and consumed by a post-crash fire. Both pilots were killed, but the two passengers and the sole flight attendant on board survived. Both pilots were killed, but the two passengers and the sole flight attendant on board survived.