NASA marks Apollo, Challenger, Columbia tragedies on annual Day of Remembrance
It was a cloudy Saturday morning on the Space Coast when 12-year-old Tal Ramon anxiously waited with his family for the return of his father Ilan on Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003. Ilan and his six ...
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The Day the Challenger Fell From the Sky
Adam Higginbotham’s new book delves deep into the tragedy of the Challenger explosion and the impact the disaster has had on American culture. Apple Podcasts will only work on MacOS operating ...
William Lucas, director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center during the Challenger disaster
William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the centre responsible for the defective rocket that caused the disaster of 1986 ...
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William R. Lucas, NASA official blamed in Challenger disaster, dies at 102
Lucas, a NASA rocket scientist who helped shape the ... the 1986 explosion that killed all seven crew members aboard the Challenger space shuttle, died Feb. 10 at his home in Huntsville, Alabama.
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Former director of the Alabama NASA center during the Challenger space shuttle explosion dies at 102
William Ray Lucas, who led the NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, has died. Lucas was 102. Lucas died Monday at his home in ...