Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Americans had become so complacent about the dangers of space travel that when Congressman Bill Nelson spent six days orbiting the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On this day 40 years ago, a generation of schoolchildren learned that the future can break your heart. That morning, television ...

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 ...

Forty years ago today, Americans were stunned, shocked and saddened when the Challenger space shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff on a cold, cloudless day in Florida. A booster leak ignited the ...

Forty years ago, the world watched in horror as NASA's space shuttle Challenger exploded mid-air, killing all seven crew members aboard. The disaster occurred at what was then the pinnacle of the U.S.

Five astronauts and two payload specialists make up the STS 51-L crew, scheduled to fly aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger in January of 1986. Crewmembers are (left to right, front row) astronauts ...

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 ...