issues spotted following the launch gave some engineers pause for thought – it could easily have mirrored the Challenger disaster a year later. Managers had delayed the lift-off due to ...

Launch of the Challenger space shuttle from Cape Canaveral in Florida. It's first mission was on April 4, 1983 and it completed nine missions into space. This may be a picture of January 28, 1986 when ...

Seventeen astronauts were lost in the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. The crew of Apollo 1 during training in Florida in January 1967. From left, Virgil "Gus ...