For 73 seconds, a crowd of excited Americans looked to the sky in wonder and awe as they waved goodbye to the crew aboard ...

HOUSTON -- NASA will observe a solemn anniversary today. The Challenger accident happened 30 years ago today. NASA is set to honor the victims of that accident across multiple states today. It is hard ...

The Challenger Learning Center is honoring its namesake in 2026, the 40th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle tragedy ...

That kind of strong leadership and great teamwork are the real safety systems of spaceflight.

In the aftermath of the Challenger disaster, NASA explored Shuttle-C—an uncrewed, shuttle-derived cargo launcher meant to deliver massive payloads, support lunar missions, and enable assembly of ...

A flag that survived the Challenger space shuttle explosion in 1986 will be permanently displayed at the Challenger Learning Center in Colorado Springs, offering visitors a tangible connection to one ...

HOUSTON -- It has been three decades since America witnessed that disaster after liftoff in a moment that should have been historic for a different reason.

Christa McAuliffe, a teacher at Concord High School in Concord, New Hampshire, was selected by NASA to be the first teacher to go into space aboard the ill-fated Space Shuttle Challenger. She planned ...