William R. Lucas, a NASA rocket scientist who helped shape ... senior engineers including Allan J. McDonald declined to give their go-ahead, arguing that the mission should be delayed until ...

By Trip Gabriel William R. Lucas, who oversaw development of rockets for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration and shouldered much of the institutional blame for the catastrophic ...

William Lucas, a key NASA figure during the 1986 Space ... Francis R. Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Ellison S. Onizuka, Judith A. Resnik, Ronald E. McNair, and Gregory B. Jarvis were also onboard ...

(Tribune News Service) — William R. Lucas, who directed the Marshall Space Flight Center from a crucial time of expansion into one of its darkest hours, died Feb. 10, 2025, at his home in ...