FAS Homepage | Space Policy | Index | Search | Join FAS 51-L The Challenger Accident On January 28, 1986 America was shocked by the destruction of the space shuttle Challenger, and the death of its seven crew members. A decade after this national tragedy, the World Wide Web hosts a variety of resources reviewed at this Challenger Accident homepage, created by the Space Policy Project of the ...

About the Challenger Explosion and how it affected children of the 80s.

Watch for falling links! Feynman's Appendix to the Rogers Commission Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident Personal observations on the reliability of the Shuttle, by R. P. Feynman Background (See also Highflight.) Introduction It appears that there are enormous differences of opinion as to the probability of a failure with loss of vehicle and of human life. The estimates range from ...

An interpretation of the Challenger disaster in terms of the Greek myth of Icarus.

Former Lockheed engineer John Maxson, Senator Charles Grassley, Bill Rogers, and the Challenger cover-up are subjects of a new book about Mission 51-L ...

The University of Texas at Austin and Texas Space Grant Consortium Studies in Ethics, Safety, and Liability for Engineers Kurt Hoover and Wallace T. Fowler Space Shuttle Challenger Mission 51-L Launch Decision On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger was launched for the last time. The decision to launch the Challenger was not simple. Certainly no one dreamed that the Shuttle would ...