This week marks forty years since seven astronauts were killed in the space shuttle Challenger accident in 1986. Families of ...
"I lost my father," Alison Balch said, "but to everyone else, they felt like they lost somebody also." ...
It's been 40 years since the Challenger space shuttle, carrying seven people, took off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, ...
Their eyes were watching. Some knew something was wrong. Others were slow to realize. Soon everyone came to grief. Forty ...
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 ...
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 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.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - It was a cold morning in Florida when the last words heard from any of Space Shuttle Challenger’s crew ...
The 40th anniversary of the Challenger disaster cast a shadow over NASA's annual Day of Remembrance event inside the Space ...
NASA's Space Shuttle Program, which ran from 1981 to 2011, was a complex and ambitious project that pushed the boundaries of ...