STS-3 was launched from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on March 22nd 1982. BREVARD COUNTY, FLORIDA – Space Shuttle Columbia lifted off for the third shuttle test flight on March 22 in 1982 for ...
David Klaus, a retired University of Colorado Boulder professor, was a 23-year-old launch control engineer at NASA when the Challenger spacecraft exploded shortly after liftoff in 1986. When his ...