Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smoke billows in the sky above the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger on Jan. 28, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Challenger explosion, a devastating incident that occurred on Jan. 28, 1986, after the ...

On the 40th anniversary of the Challenger explosion, South Carolina will pay tribute to one of its native sons: astronaut Ronald McNair, a physicist and the second Black American to reach space. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Wednesday marks 40 years since the NASA Challenger space shuttle exploded less than two minutes after takeoff, killing everyone aboard. Jan. 28, 1986, began a day filled with hope and ...

SAN DIEGO (KGTV) - A La Jolla High School teacher who was a finalist for the Teacher in Space program reflects on the 40th anniversary of the Challenger disaster and how the tragedy shaped her mission ...