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

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

Christa McAuliffe’s flight as the “teacher in space” lasted 73 seconds. A reporter who witnessed the tragedy returned to the ...

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 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. It was a day the nation slowly realized something had ...

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

Families of the astronauts lost in the space shuttle Challenger accident are marking that tragic day 40 years ago ...

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

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NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, was a complex and ambitious project that pushed the boundaries of ...

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