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

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

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

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

A generation of schoolchildren in New Hampshire grew up believing that our capacity to do the extraordinary knew no limits.

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

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Families and friends gathered at the Kennedy Space Center to commemorate the Challenger disaster's 40th anniversary, which ...

For 73 seconds, a crowd of excited Americans looked to the sky in wonder and awe as they waved goodbye to the crew aboard ...

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

The Museum of Flight marks NASA's Day of Remembrance with special displays honoring the crews of Apollo 1, Challenger, and ...