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

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

This week marks forty years since seven astronauts were killed in the space shuttle Challenger accident in 1986. Families of ...

Their eyes were watching. Some knew something was wrong. Others were slow to realize. Soon everyone came to grief. Forty ...

Forty years later, the Challenger Learning Center is asking the public for their own memories of the 1986 space shuttle ...

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

Twenty-five names are carved into the black mirror-finished granite: the Challenger seven, the seven who perished in the ...

NASA held its annual Day of Remembrance on Thursday to honor those who lost their lives in the pursuit of space exploration.

A generation of schoolchildren in New Hampshire grew up believing that our capacity to do the extraordinary knew no limits.

In the aftermath of the Challenger disaster, NASA quietly explored Shuttle C, an uncrewed heavy lift vehicle built from Space Shuttle hardware to carry massive cargo into orbit. On paper it promised ...

Nasa’s avoidable tragedy exemplified 1980s overconfidence and haunted a generation, but the allure of space exploration endured ...