The Columbia disaster came one week after the 17th anniversary of the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, which disintegrated 73 seconds after liftoff from Florida's Kennedy Space Center on ...

And no tragedy is more indelible than the space shuttle Challenger disaster. “Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space,” by Adam Higginbotham, is a superb ...

Thirty years ago on January 28, seven astronauts were killed when the Challenger space shuttle exploded ... videos several years after the shuttle disaster. Her lost lessons are now available ...

When the Challenger space shuttle exploded a little over ... fire that killed three astronauts and the 2003 Columbia shuttle disaster that killed seven — Higginbotham's book traces the history ...