On Jan. 28, 1986 - 40 years ago today - seven spacefarers including a North Carolina Navy commander were killed in a tragic event that has become widely known as the Challenger disaster. NASA's space ...

On this day 40 years ago, a generation of schoolchildren learned that the future can break your heart. That morning, television carts had been rolled into classrooms and assemblies across the country.

It was, in part, NASA’s own fault. The government agency had debuted the space shuttle program five years earlier with an aggressive public-relations message that the reusable vehicles would make ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – We just recovered from a freeze that lowered Jacksonville’s temperatures to 26 degrees on Saturday. Thirty-nine years ago, temperatures dipped to eerily similar frigid conditions ...

"On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals, including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on ...

Stewart stars as Sally Ride in the series about the events leading up to and following the 1986 Challenger disaster.

it is with deep, heartfelt sorrow. I address you here this afternoon at 11:40 a.m. This morning Space program experienced a national tragedy with the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

Left: STS-51L crew members Michael J. Smith, front row left, Francis R. “Dick” Scobee, Ronald E. McNair; Ellison S. Onizuka, back row left, S. Christa McAuliffe ...

Forty years ago, the NASA space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members. Among the seven crew members were five NASA astronauts, as well as a payload ...

Forty years to the day since the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, a former astronaut and teacher recounted watching the launch as a child and reflected on why she still chose to fly years later in a ...

Dallas was still haunted in the 1970s by the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Guilt, combined with intense national scrutiny, even hatred, cast a pall over Big D. I grew up with my ...