Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Challenger shuttle crew: (back, L-R) Ellison S Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Greg Jarvis and Judy Resnick. (Front, L-R) Mike ...

The Paducah Ambassadors commemorated the 40th year since the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster and participated in a hands-on ...

Bob Ebeling was anxious and angry as he drove to work on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986. He kept thinking about the space shuttle Challenger, cradled on a Florida launchpad 2,000 miles away. Ebeling ...

Seven astronauts were killed in the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster. Because a teacher was aboard, millions of schoolchildren watched the event live in school. Forty years later, many of those ...

The space shuttle Challenger explodes moments after launch on Jan. 28, 1986 from the Kennedy Space Center, killing its seven crewmembers. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge ...

Author Adam Higginbotham joins John Williams to discuss his book, ‘Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space.’ Adam talks about what makes him interested in these types of ...

The Artemis II launch on April 1, was a success. But not all launches have bee. In 1986, 7 members of the Challenger crew were killed in a shocking disaster.

Read full article: INTERACTIVE: The NASA astronauts and employees who died in service to U.S. space exploration January 28th is a Day of Remembrance honoring the lives of the crew and teacher aboard ...

The Challenger disaster still hits harder than almost any other spaceflight tragedy because it did not feel random. This ...

Editor: On a beautiful January morning in 1986, seven crew members, five men and two women, proudly boarded The Space Shuttle Challenger. We saw the crew for the last time as they walked out to the ...

Forty years ago, the world watched in horror as NASA's space shuttle Challenger exploded mid-air, killing all seven crew members aboard. The disaster occurred at what was then the pinnacle of the U.S.