'It's part of his story': Daughter remembers astronaut dad 40 years after Challenger explosion

"I lost my father," Alison Balch said, "but to everyone else, they felt like they lost somebody also." ...

It's been 40 years since 7 people were killed in the Challenger space shuttle explosion off Florida roast

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

40 years after Challenger: Lingering guilt and lessons learned

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

40 years ago, the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster changed Central Floridians’ lives

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

Challenger at 40: Lessons from a tragedy

Forty years ago, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff. Seven astronauts were killed, including ...
The Press Democrat

NASA and families of fallen astronauts mark 40th anniversary of space shuttle Challenger accident

Twenty-five names are carved into the black mirror-finished granite: the Challenger seven, the seven who perished in the ...
Opinion

Challenger, 40 years on: the space shuttle disaster watched live by millions of children

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

NASA honors fallen astronauts at annual Day of Remembrance

NASA observed its annual Day of Remembrance Thursday to commemorate the astronauts killed in the Apollo 1 and space shuttle ...
Concord Monitor

‘Part of our human destiny’: The evolution of space exploration from shuttle to SpaceX

NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, was a complex and ambitious project that pushed the boundaries of ...

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center releases video of historic test stands implosion in Huntsville

NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center removed two of its historic test stands, the Propulsion and Structural Test Facility and the Dynamic Test Facility, with carefully coordinated implosions on ...