In 1967, NASA was testing the experimental Northrop M2-F2, a revolutionary lifting-body vehicle designed to explore how ...

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 ...

AT GRANITE STATE, TEACHER IS STILL CHANGING LIVES. THIS IS A NEWS NINE SPECIAL REPORT. THE LAUNCH OF THE CHALLENGER 40 YEARS AGO, A 37 YEAR OLD CONCORD HIGH SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES TEACHER SET OUT TO ...

HOUSTON — Forty years ago, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members aboard in a tragedy that shocked the nation and reshaped NASA's approach to ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — This week marks 40 years since the space shuttle Challenger broke apart shortly after liftoff, a tragedy that changed how the United States approaches space travel. On Jan. 28, ...

After the Challenger tragedy, nobody wanted to see a film about five kids on an adventure in space.

Forty years ago, on January 28, 1986, the nation gathered to watch the Space Shuttle Challenger launch, a historic mission carrying the first "teacher in space," Christa McAuliffe. But 73 seconds into ...

Bob Ebeling spent three decades filled with guilt over not stopping the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, but found relief in the weeks before his death. Ebeling’s daughter Leslie Serna told ...

Seven astronauts were killed in the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster. Because a teacher was aboard, millions of schoolchildren watched the event live in school. Forty years later, many of those ...