The 1986 explosion that destroyed the space shuttle Challenger and killed seven astronauts shocked the nation, but for one rocket engineer the tragedy became a personal burden and created a lifelong ...

For weeks, I have been wishing that I could introduce Kendrick Castillo to Roger Boisjoly. But the irreversibility of human mortality has made this an impossible dream. Nonetheless, it is a dream I ...

Roger Boisjoly, who led the eleventh-hour effort to delay the launch, testified about the O-ring task force, including his warning of a catastrophe six months before. Little of this testimony was ...

NEPHI, Utah-- Roger Boisjoly, a NASA contractor who repeatedly voiced concerns about the space shuttle Challenger before it exploded, has died. He was 73. Boisjoly died of cancer on Jan. 6 in Nephi, ...

At 8.15 a.m. on Jan. 28, 1986, New Hampshire social-studies teacher Christa McAuliffe sat with her six fellow astronauts ahead of the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger from Kennedy Space Center ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The tragic history of trying to stop the Challenger disaster Re: “Introducing two heroes who need no introduction,” June 16 commentary Thanks to Patty ...

Bob Ebeling was anxious and angry as he drove to work on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986. He kept thinking about the space shuttle Challenger, cradled on a Florida launchpad 2,000 miles away. Ebeling ...