The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

At a time when the entire American space industry is preparing for the launch of the first crewed mission to the Moon under the Artemis program, NASA found it fit to release the report of findings of ...