so its first launch unfortunately was the Challenger disaster of January 1986, killing Teacher-in-Space Christa McAuliffe and six NASA astronauts. After the shuttle returned to flight in 1988 ...

Edmondson, Amy C., and Laura Feldman. "Group Process in the Challenger Launch Decision (A), (B), (C), and (D) (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 604-032, September 2003. (Revised April 2011.

Thirty years ago on January 28, seven astronauts were killed when the Challenger space shuttle exploded just 73 seconds after launch. One of those seven astronauts was Christa McAuliffe.

The telescope's original October 1986 launch was scrapped after the loss of the space shuttle Challenger. When the telescope finally became operational in 1990, it began to return unprecedented ...

There are 10 major NASA facilities, including the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and the Johnson Space Center in Houston. October 4, 1957 - The Soviets launch Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial ...

Moon missions aside, whether it lives or dies makes no practical difference to his armlock on America’s space-launch industry. SpaceX’s actual main challenger at the moment is Blue Origin ...

CONCORD, NH (WGME) -- A beloved teacher who was headed for space is being remembered with a new statue. Christa McAuliffe was ...

Based on a true story, an engineer working on the Space Shuttle Challenger discovers a potentially fatal flaw in the launch that could cost the lives of the astronauts on board. Unfortunately ...

While the space shuttle was mostly a civilian program, in the 1980s the U.S. military used it occasionally to launch satellites ... mostly ceased after the Challenger shuttle explosion of 1986 ...