This week marks forty years since seven astronauts were killed in the space shuttle Challenger accident in 1986. Families of ...

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

Families of the astronauts lost in the space shuttle Challenger accident are marking that tragic day 40 years ago ...

It’s been 40 years since the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. It was a day the nation slowly realized something had ...

Ohio native Judith Resnik was a mission specialist on the doomed Space Shuttle Challenger when it exploded shortly after ...

It was 40 years ago this week that many of us witnessed those fateful 73 seconds of Challenger's final flight. Let's remember ...

It's been 40 years since the Challenger space shuttle, carrying seven people, took off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, ...

The Christa McAuliffe Center at Framingham State plans several events to mark the 40th anniversary of the Challenger disaster ...

Nasa’s avoidable tragedy exemplified 1980s overconfidence and haunted a generation, but the allure of space exploration endured ...

Challenger disaster, a new book series explores teen life, history, and culture in 1986 suburban America. I’ve seen a ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. It occurred Feb. 1, 2003. For millions of Americans, it was an event that ...

A flag that survived the Challenger space shuttle explosion in 1986 will be permanently displayed at the Challenger Learning Center in Colorado Springs, offering visitors a tangible connection to one ...