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NASA's space shuttle Challenger completed 10 missions before it broke apart during a launch in 1986, killing seven astronauts.

Seven astronauts were killed in the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster. Because a teacher was aboard, millions of schoolchildren watched the event live in school. Forty years later, many of those ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The myth of "routine" spaceflight was tragically shattered in 1986 as thousands of schoolchildren watched space shuttle Challenger ...

The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986, killed all seven astronauts on board, but disturbing details later ...

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

The morning of the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion 40 years ago still remains the coldest Jan. 28 ever on the Treasure ...

The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded 40 years ago, on Jan. 28, 1986. The disaster was watched live on CNN across the globe and in person by family and friends of the crew and schoolchildren. A ...

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

When the pilot confirmed his insturction to mission control with the words, “go throttle up”. It sounded like another routine mission was unfolding -until it didn't.

The widow of the space shuttle Challenger mission commander stood before an audience that was not yet born when the national tragedy occurred. And the Challenger Middle School students listened ...