Thirty years after the space shuttle Challenger broke apart in ... between Ronald McNair on her left and Hughes Aircraft Co. satellite engineer Gregory Jarvis on her right. Seated on the ...

The shuttle's commander Francis "Dick" Scobee ... Payload specialist Gregory Jarvis worked for the Hughes Aircraft Corp in Los Angeles. Mr Jarvis was accepted into the astronaut programme under ...

He piloted the shuttle program's third mission in 1982 ... After working briefly as a mechanical design engineer for Hughes Aircraft Company, he entered the Air Force in July 1958.

By Richard Sandomir Millie Hughes-Fulford, NASA’s first female payload specialist, who conducted biomedical experiments on the physical toll of spaceflight on humans on board the space shuttle ...

It was 35 years ago today (Jan. 28) that the most defining accident of NASA happened, when the space shuttle Challenger ... astronaut (Ellison Onizuka), Hughes Aircraft payload specialist Gregory ...

General Motors Corp. emerged the winner Wednesday in the month-long bidding battle for Hughes Aircraft Corp., agreeing to pay the Howard Hughes Medical Institute about $5.7 billion in cash and stock.