Challenger: A Management Failure
The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster was probably the most significant event, in terms of its impact on the US space program, in the history of... Read more →
Curiosity Wheel Issues and Solutions: A Conversation with JPL’s Jim Erickson
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has noted some issues with its Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity’s wheels since the one-ton... Read more →
A Major Malfunction: The Fateful Launch Of Challenger
On this day, 28 January, in 1986, one of the worst and most public disasters in U.S. space history unfolded with horrifying suddenness in the skies... Read more →
How ISS Helps Save Lives
If you are reading Space Safety Magazine, you probably know already the International Space Station, the human outpost in low Earth orbit where a... Read more →
Vladimir Komarov and the Tragic Flight of Soyuz 1
Late in April 1967, an unusual announcement was made by the Soviet news agency, Tass. A few days earlier, cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov had been... Read more →
The Crew That Never Flew: The Misfortunes of Soyuz 11 (Part 1)
More than 40 years ago, the world’s first space station—Salyut 1, a “salute” to Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space —was launched into... Read more →