Christa McAuliffe trained to be the first teacher in space, preparing to turn a shuttle cabin into the most-watched classroom ...

If flying to the Moon were like swimming the English Channel, no one in the 53 years since Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific would have ventured more than 40 metres from the beach. That is about ...

A Pee Dee community came together to remember a renowned astronaut and physicist who lost his life 40 years ago.

Dave Reynolds was in second grade at Lakeview Elementary in Roy, Utah, on January 28, 1986, when his teacher wheeled in a TV ...

At the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, this week is dedicated to remembrance — honoring the heroes lost in the pursuit of space exploration.

"I think the people, the seven people we lost that day, and how they had dedicated their careers and lives to exploration." ...

A tragedy etched in the mind of a generation, the loss of the space shuttle Challenger and its crew still hits home 40 years ...

Christa McAuliffe Middle School in Boynton Beach honors its namesake with student assemblies featuring NASA experts 40 years after the Challenger disaster.

NASA’s Space Shuttle Challenger exploded in mid-air. All seven crew members on board were killed—including a teacher who was ...

Former astronaut and professor Terry Hart is opening up 40 years later about the friends and colleagues he lost on board the ...

The Crew-12 astronauts were already in line to take the Crew-11 quartet's place but had originally been scheduled to overlap with them before their return to Earth. SpaceX and NASA had originally ...

Families of the astronauts lost in the space shuttle Challenger accident gathered back at the launch site Thursday to mark ...