Almost three years before it exploded, he was aboard the shuttle on its maiden flight. He commanded two other shuttle missions and was the first New York City native to orbit the earth. By Richard ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two astronauts wrangle a spool of computer printouts inside the space shuttle. Karol "Bo" Bobko, who was the only NASA astronaut ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Karol Bobko, the pilot of the first mission of NASA’s notorious Challenger shuttle, has died at 85. Bobko became the first person ...

Beneath a sliver of moon and the hum of a small plane, the first astronaut to graduate from the Air Force Academy, Col. Karol “Bo” Bobko, was buried Friday morning at the base’s cemetery. Bobko is the ...

Karol "Bo" Bobko, who was the only NASA astronaut to fly on the first launch of two space shuttle orbiters, has died at the age of 85. Bobko's death on Thursday (Aug. 17) was confirmed by the ...