He also served on the Rogers Commission which investigated causes behind the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy.
President Reagan used the intimate space to comfort the public after space shuttle Challenger exploded in 1986.
The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives.
Ronald Reagan was scheduled to deliver his address on January 28, 1986, the same day the space shuttle Challenger exploded.
President Ronald Reagan was scheduled to deliver his address on January 28, 1986, the same day the space shuttle Challenger exploded.
Carrying the aerospace analogy, Simmons says the investigation into this disaster will be akin to that following the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger.
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President Reagan had planned to deliver his annual State of the Union address on the day the space shuttle Challenger exploded killing all seven crew members aboard.
He returned to NASA twice to serve on boards of enquiry, the first into the near-disaster of Apollo 13, the second into the disintegration of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986.
On January the 28, 1986, the seven courageous Americans of the Space Shuttle Challenger -- parents and scientists, pilots, and our first teacher in space -- gave their souls back to God.
Bob Graham, a Democrat, and former Environmental Protection Agency Administrator William Reilly, who served under a Republican, are the picks to lead the panel, which could be patterned after past commissions that have investigated incidents such as the 1986 explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger, the people said.
He nodded towards the pain inflicted by storm Sandy and then moved on to the stump speech that anyone who has attended more than one rally knows so well - the five-point plan, the anecdote about the US flag rescued from the space shuttle Challenger disaster, the dully-delivered homilies about the need for change.
Ecolution, a 26m twin-masted schooner, is owned by Dr Ockels, a physicist and astronaut who became the first Dutch civilian in space, flying on the Challenger space shuttle on a Spacelab mission.
In 1986, seven astronauts died after the Challenger space shuttle exploded 72 seconds after lift-off from Cape Canaveral.
Mr. Stoller's big chance to perform on "Late Night With David Letterman" in 1986 came on the day the Challenger space shuttle exploded.
And the first man to leave footprints in the lunar dust, Apollo 11 Commander Neil Armstrong -- aside from geologist Schmitt, the only other civilian in the collection of moonwalkers -- later sat on several corporate boards and the presidential commission that investigated the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster.
In 1988, in the first space mission since the explosion of the shuttle Challenger in January 1986, the shuttle Discovery was launched.
One example that See uses in the classroom: the 1986 Challenger disaster, when the space shuttle blew apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing the seven crew members.
Apollo's successor, the Space Shuttle program, failed to capture America's imagination, or attention, except in 1986, when Challenger blew up, killing seven, and in 2003, when Columbia disintegrated on reentry, killing another seven.
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