We're revisiting live broadcasts from Cape Canaveral, with one of the local reporters who covered the launch in real time.

The Challenger Learning Center is honoring its namesake in 2026, the 40th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle tragedy ...

This January, NHPR marks the 40th anniversary of the Challenger shuttle disaster with a multi-part series honoring the life, ...

HOUSTON -- NASA will observe a solemn anniversary today. The Challenger accident happened 30 years ago today. NASA is set to honor the victims of that accident across multiple states today. It is hard ...

A flag that survived the Challenger space shuttle explosion in 1986 will be permanently displayed at the Challenger Learning Center in Colorado Springs, offering visitors a tangible connection to one ...

NASA was created to run America's race into space after the Soviet Union launched the orbiting satellite Sputnik in 1958. Twenty-five years ago, the Challenger spacecraft exploded 73 seconds after ...

The song, "XO," uses six seconds of sample audio from the Challenger disaster. Dec. 30, 2013— -- Beyoncé has been labeled "insensitive" by some current and former NASA astronauts and their ...

If you are of a certain age, you probably recall where you were when you heard the news. That morning, the space shuttle Challenger exploded just 73 seconds after launch, killing all seven crew ...

"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 ...

We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it’s time we paid some damn attention to them. So we’ll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day’s work. Maybe two ...

Employee "unfamiliar" with disaster, company claims. — -- American Apparel apologized this week after a social media employee mistook a photo of the shuttle Challenger disaster for clouds and ...

After the Challenger disaster, American companies turned to an unlikely partner to launch their satellites: China. What began as a cost-cutting business decision soon turned into a geopolitical gamble ...