28, 1986, Floridians saw the familiar plume from the launch ... Challenger’s right solid rocket booster had failed because temperatures overnight dropped into the low 20s. Hot gases burned ...

On that chilly January day in 1986, students and teachers across the nation waited in awe and wonder, primed to watch and learn from the first teacher in space as she soared to new heights from a ...

On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after it was launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in just 73 seconds which claimed the lives of seven astronauts.

Edmondson, Amy C., and Laura Feldman. "Group Process in the Challenger Launch Decision (A), (B), (C), and (D) (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 604-032, September 2003. (Revised April 2011.

Temperatures dropped to 22 degrees at 7 am in Titusville, FL. The frigid forecast for the Challenger’s launch, with temperatures expected to drop into the mid-20s, raised serious safety concerns ...

Approximately a minute, half after launch from here at the Kennedy Space Center. Shouldn't. And it has cleared the tower. A challenger Good ... like a welder's torch through the gap left by ...