William R. Lucas, Official Blamed in Challenger Tragedy, Dies at 102
The strong-willed director of NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center, he failed to pass on warnings from engineers that the ...
N.J. district will close a different middle school in last-minute switch
The surprise decision to shut down the school was based partly on the building's value if it needs to be sold, local officials said.
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Fmr. director of the Alabama NASA center during the Challenger explosion dies at 102
William Ray Lucas , the man who led a NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 Challenger explosion, has died. Laughlin Service Funeral Home director Bryan Peek said Saturday that ...
Bad weather, former Marshall chief, college hoops: Down in Alabama
Three were confirmed in North Alabama -- one in Franklin County, one near Tuscumbia in Colbert County and one in Marshall ...
Director who led Marshall Space Flight Center during Challenger disaster dead at 102
President Ronald Reagan immediately appointed a commission to investigate and report on the circumstances that led up to the ...
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China to launch 2 new space station cargo spacecraft on commercial rockets in 2025
The Haolong cargo space shuttle from the Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute under the Aviation Industry Corporation (AVIC) will launch on Landspace’s Zhuque-3, a Feb. 2 article from state media ...
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Two space startups have merged to create the next generation of telescopes
He’d just led a $9.5 million seed round for OurSky, a software platform for space observational data, and was eager to see what its telescope partner PlaneWave Instruments could do. But when ...
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A passenger jet exploded nearly 30 years ago. How families of aircraft disaster victims are treated was forever changed
And I think they’re doing a wonderful job.” The explosion led to legislation, the Aviation Disaster Family Assistance Act, which would forever change the way plane accident victims’ families ...