The 1986 explosion that destroyed the space shuttle Challenger and killed seven astronauts shocked the nation, but for one rocket engineer the tragedy became a personal burden and created a lifelong ...

This week (Jan. 28) in 1986, the Challenger space shuttle exploded, killing all on board, including Christa McAuliffe, a school teacher who had won a nationwide contest to become the first civilian ...

At 8.15 a.m. on Jan. 28, 1986, New Hampshire social-studies teacher Christa McAuliffe sat with her six fellow astronauts ahead of the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger from Kennedy Space Center ...

NEPHI, Utah-- Roger Boisjoly, a NASA contractor who repeatedly voiced concerns about the space shuttle Challenger before it exploded, has died. He was 73. Boisjoly died of cancer on Jan. 6 in Nephi, ...

For weeks, I have been wishing that I could introduce Kendrick Castillo to Roger Boisjoly. But the irreversibility of human mortality has made this an impossible dream. Nonetheless, it is a dream I ...

The tragic history of trying to stop the Challenger disaster Re: “Introducing two heroes who need no introduction,” June 16 commentary Thanks to Patty Limerick for her epideictic praise of two late ...

(Left) Bob Ebeling in his home in Brigham City, Utah. (Right) The Challenger lifts off on Jan. 28, 1986, from a launchpad at Kennedy Space Center, 73 seconds before an explosion killed its crew of ...

NEPHI, Utah — Roger Boisjoly, a NASA contractor who repeatedly voiced concerns about the space shuttle Challenger before it exploded, has died. He was 73. Boisjoly died of cancer on Jan. 6 in ...

Thirty years ago, Allan McDonald faced one of the toughest decisions of his life. As an engineer in charge of building rocket boosters for NASA, McDonald knew that the plan to launch the Challenger ...

"Away from goodness in the current data base." That's how Morton Thiokol staff engineer Roger Boisjoly, in a hearing investigating the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, said he described the ...

Allan J. McDonald, an engineer who on a chilly January morning in 1986 tried to stop the launch of the Challenger space shuttle, citing the possible effect of the cold on its booster rockets, and who, ...

This week in 1986, the Challenger space shuttle exploded, killing all on board, including Christa McAuliffe, a school teacher who had won a nationwide contest to become the first civilian passenger to ...