​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 ...

Christa McAuliffe was to be the first civilian in space, but on January 28, 1986, Space Shuttle Challenger exploded, killing everyone aboard. In memory of the first Teacher-In Space, here are some ...

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 ...

From the world watching in horror as the Challenger space shuttle exploded to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that upended millions of lives, 1986 was a year for the history books. But it wasn’t all ...

John Denver was a decorated country musician, philanthropist, environmentalist, and, generally, an icon. The man wore a few different hats. And one more to include on that list is that of a pilot’s ...

In 1986, an experiment conceived by an Appleton high school student resulted in the first and only paper ever made in space. The experiment, flown on the space shuttle Columbia, tested if paper made ...