It was a much less detailed model, built from just 342 pieces. The Shuttle Carrier Aircraft is also the second set themed around NASA's winged vehicles be part of the intended for adults Lego Icons ...

The budget-cutters called astrophysicist Dr. Kartik Sheth and his colleagues in the chief scientist’s suite at NASA ...

The story of the doomed Challenger spacecraft and how it came to its gruesome demise features a tragic sequence of events and heartbreaking final words from those on board. It was 28 January 1986, and ...

On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride made history as the first American woman to journey into space, soaring aboard the shuttle Challenger and ... as a heroine and a role model for young women.

it is with deep, heartfelt sorrow. I address you here this afternoon at 11:40 a.m. This morning Space program experienced a national tragedy with the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

Students gathered around model space shuttles ... Seventeen years after the Challenger disaster, another shuttle and its crew were lost in the skies above America: The shuttle Columbia broke ...

“It’s the Space Shuttle Challenger, Bob,” he said ... I built Apollo rockets out of Revell model kits, gluing dozens of pieces together and applying decals with pride.

A model of the space shuttle Challenger, at right, floats above a portrait of NASA’s first teacher in space Christa McAuliffe at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024, in ...

The CAIB explained NASA's outlook by pointing to the Space Shuttle program's record – there were 24 successful launches before the Challenger ... agency's use of the Crater model, a computer ...

The tragedy of the Space Shuttle Challenger would change NASA forever ... On live TV with a scale model of the Shuttle and a glass of ice water, he boldly demonstrated how cold temperatures ...