The man who led a NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 space shuttle Challenger explosion has died. William Ray Lucas was 102.

This was the second fatal accident of the space shuttle program following the Challenger disaster in 1986, and NASA suspended space shuttle flights for more than two years as it investigated the ...

In 2004, NASA began hosting a remembrance ceremony to honor three of the agency's catastrophic events: the Apollo I fire, the Challenger space shuttle disaster, and the Columbia space shuttle disaster ...

Director Cristina Costantini's documentary about the first U.S. woman in space bows at the annual Utah film festival. Sally Ride wanted to ... people would say, 'The shuttle launched that morning.' ...

SHREVEPORT, La - The Space Shuttle Columbia broke apart over East Texas as it returned to earth on Feb. 1, 2003. Pieces of Columbia showered there and parts of Louisiana. KTBS was there talking ...

John Curley reflects on when the Challenger Exploded after liftoff 39 years ago yesterday. They talk about Ronald Reagan’s historic speech and the woman who wrote it. Listen to The John Curley ...

29, 1988, when Discovery lifted off from the space center. Seventeen years after the Challenger disaster, another shuttle and its crew were lost in the skies above America: The shuttle Columbia ...

Ride says in the new documentary 'Sally'. “I said ... rise at NASA and journey to becoming the first American woman in space. In the film, Kathy Sullivan, a scientist and former astronaut ...

Sally Ride accomplished multiple firsts when she entered orbit in 1983 at the age of 32, breaking barriers for female astronauts and women in science. Following her death in 2012 at age 61, a new ...

Sally Ride accomplished ... explores the lesser-known truths about Ride’s 27-year romance with life partner Tam O’Shaughnessy, as well as Ride’s rise at NASA and journey to becoming the first American ...