This claim was, in fact, true. McCandless was, indeed, the first astronaut to perform an untethered spacewalk on Feb. 7, 1984 ...

The Challenger tragedy was an unforgettable setback amid the hope that surrounded space travel The 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion is a tragedy that defined a generation. Across the United ...

Ron McNair (who later died on the space shuttle Challenger in 1986) and Fred Gregory (who after flying in space, went on to become a NASA deputy administrator.) "All of us knew that one of us ...

It’s exciting. It’s due to grant funding and donors and offering what we can offer on our end to schools in Pottstown, ...

The Space Shuttle is made of up of the Orbiter Vehicle, the External Tank, and 2 Solid Rocket Boosters. Missions were launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. There were five orbiters built to ...

Astronauts Story Musgrave (left) and Don Peterson float in the cargo bay of the space shuttle Challenger On 7 April in 1983, American astronauts Don Peterson and Story Musgrave bravely stepped out ...

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 ...

astronaut Bruce McCandless ventured out into space and away from shuttle Challenger using only a nitrogen-propelled, hand-controlled backpack Only two robotic missions have made it to the Swift ...

The last time players took the field for a varsity football game at Spartanburg Day School, Return of the Jedi was still in ...

Dodge may have ended the Challenger story, yet this company (unlike Chevy) still has a muscle car in its lineup: the all-new ...

The 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion is a tragedy that defined a generation. Across the United States, both students and adults took time out of their days on the morning of Jan. 28 ...