The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...

HOUSTON (CNN) — NASA's Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off 40 years ago with an unusual crew. In addition to six astronauts, the mission took flight with a teacher on board. Christa McAuliffe, the ...

At 8.15 a.m. on Jan. 28, 1986, New Hampshire social-studies teacher Christa McAuliffe sat with her six fellow astronauts ahead of the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger from Kennedy Space Center ...

GREEN BAY, Wis. (WBAY) - Wednesday marks the 40th anniversary of the space shuttle Challenger disaster. Just 73 seconds after liftoff, the shuttle’s fuel tank exploded and the shuttle broke apart ...

NASA's Artemis II mission launched on April 1, marking the first U.S. space excursion of its kind since the 1970s. The 10-day mission will test life support systems during a flyby of the moon but will ...

The Christa McAuliffe Center for Integrated Science Learning plans several events to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, which on Jan. 28, 1986, claimed the ...

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. (WDEF) –The 28th of January marks 40 years since the Challenger Space Shuttle Disaster that claimed the lives of seven astronaut crew members. It was supposed to be a routine ...

The mid-1980s may feel distant to today’s Northwestern students. But to me, a 22-year-old senior at the Medill School of Journalism — nearly 40 years ago, today — that time is forever etched in memory ...

Even after the tragedy, family members of the Challenger astronauts wanted to carry on with a piece of their loved ones’ mission. Scobee’s widow, Dr. June Scobee Rodgers, recalled having a light-bulb ...