NASA’s institutional sorrow runs deep—back far before the Challenger and Columbia disasters, to the Jan. 27, 1967, launch pad fire that claimed the lives of astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White ...

Grissom’s near-death escape remains one of the most dramatic ... Parachutes are the first option. NASA typically uses designs ...

Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B ... The Rogers Commission, formed to investigate the accident, criticized NASA’s management and decision-making processes, leading to significant ...

Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope to confirm that supermassive black holes can starve their host ...

NASA, and space travel wouldn't be complete without spectacle, state-of-the-art special effects, and an immersive soundscape, and The Right Stuff succeeds on all fronts. From Chuck Yeager's ...

NASA October 4: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik ... July 21: American astronaut Gus Grissom's sub-orbital flight is marred when, after splashdown, the hatch of his capsule blows open and the ...

Thirteen days later, on Jan. 28, that liftoff took place, ending in a fuel tank explosion and the death ... by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of ...