NASA's Space Shuttle successfully reached orbit during its first attempt in April 1981. The Saturn V rocket that launched the first humans to the Moon also didn't explode during liftoff in July 1969.

The park in southeast Harris County was dedicated in 1986 to honor seven NASA astronauts who died in the explosion of the ...

“It’s the Space Shuttle Challenger ... with me in my train car through the Loop had probably watched the shuttle explode on the news at work that afternoon multiple times.

Well, we won't even get into that one. But for Gen X, one event stands above the rest: The 1986 explosion of the Challenger space shuttle, which many witnessed live on television as mere ...