Forty years ago, the NASA space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members. Among the seven crew members were five NASA astronauts, as well as a payload ...

As the final countdown ticked away before Space Shuttle Challenger's launch on January 28, 1986, tens of millions of Americans were riveted to their television screens. A rocket launch was already a ...

At least two Challenger astronauts are believed to have survived the shuttle's explosion, enduring a harrowing 2-minute, 45-second descent before impact ...

As families of the lost Challenger astronauts gather with NASA to mark the space shuttle accident’s 30th anniversary, there’s a new voice to address the crowd. June Scobee Rodgers – widow of ...

Bob Ebeling was anxious and angry as he drove to work on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986. He kept thinking about the space shuttle Challenger, cradled on a Florida launchpad 2,000 miles away. Ebeling ...

As the countdown reached its finale ahead of the Space Shuttle Challenger's lift-off on January 28, 1986, countless spectators remained glued to their screens. A spacecraft launch was invariably a ...

NASA is preparing to launch four astronauts on a lunar fly-around on Wednesday in humanity's first flight to the moon since 1972. As anticipation mounts, some Americans are feeling anxious due to the ...