NASA's space shuttle Challenger completed 10 missions before it broke apart during a launch in 1986, killing seven astronauts ...

Just one day before the Challenger space shuttle exploded over a minute after lift off on Jan. 28, 1986, Terry Hart received ...

Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off. A small team of engineers tried to prevent ...

Akron schoolgirl, a whiz in math and science, grew up to become a brilliant engineer, a pioneer astronaut and the second ...

For the millions of people across the country and around the world that watched the tragic loss of Challenger live, the ...

The crew for the space shuttle Challenger flight 51-L leaves their quarters for the launch pad, Jan. 27, 1986, at the Kennedy ...

A nation watched in horror as the space shutter Challenger exploded on Jan. 28, 1986, during a live television broadcast.

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

As we enter a new age of space travel, a former NASA astronaut says that rather than accepting risk, we should try to control ...

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

The space shuttle Challenger explosion was a defining moment of the 1980s. Whether you were watching on TV or in person, ...