The American space program needed big rubber rings. The subcontractor that won the job was called HydraPak – a Salt Lake City ...
How a cold morning, failed O-rings, and flawed decision-making led to tragedy Forty years ago, Space Shuttle Challenger ...
🚀 On This Day — 28 Jan In 1986, the Challenger shuttle tragically disintegrated shortly after launch, claiming the lives of ...
To demonstrate this tragic oversight, Feynman dropped a sample of the O-ring rubber in a glass of ice water. The rubber grew ...
Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades ...
Forty years after the space shuttle Challenger disintegrated shortly after liftoff, the disaster remains one of the most ...
The space shuttle Challenger explosion was a defining moment of the 1980s. Whether you were watching on TV or in person, ...
Wednesday marks 40 years since the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, which occurred on Jan. 28, 1986, just 73 seconds into ...
The crew for the space shuttle Challenger flight 51-L leaves their quarters for the launch pad, Jan. 27, 1986, at the Kennedy ...