It's been 40 years since the Challenger space shuttle, carrying seven people, took off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, ...

NASA's space shuttle Challenger exploded and broke apart Jan. 28, 1986, in the sky over East-Central Florida, killing the ...

A catastrophic failure occurred 73 seconds after liftoff as the shuttle emerged from “Max-Q,” the period of highest ...

The 40th anniversary of the Challenger explosion stirs the memories of Long Island educators who watched the disaster on ...

It’s been 40 years since the tragic Space Shuttle Challenger launch.

Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off. A small team of engineers tried to prevent ...

Forty years ago, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff. Seven astronauts were killed, including ...

It’s been 40 years since the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. It was a day the nation slowly realized something had ...

Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades ...

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Many county residents remember the shock and pain they felt 40 years ago as they watched the space shuttle Challenger ...

"I lost my father," Alison Balch said, "but to everyone else, they felt like they lost somebody also." ...