Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Today marks the 40th anniversary of the Challenger explosion, a devastating incident that occurred on Jan. 28, 1986, after the ...

Forty years ago, a space shuttle exploded. A teacher and her crewmates lost their lives. A generation of schoolchildren watched it happen live. I was one of them. I was 10 when the Challenger ascended ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Smoke billows in the sky above the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger on Jan. 28, ...

HOUSTON (CNN) — NASA’s Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off 40 years ago with an unusual crew. In addition to six astronauts, the mission took flight with a teacher on board. Christa McAuliffe, the ...

HUNTSVILLE, AL (WAFF) - 40 years ago, NASA was on a frenetic path to get shuttles flying. In fact, the Kennedy Space Center’s “dance card” for January 1986 was full. Marine and pilot-turned-astronaut ...

On Jan. 28, 1986, NASA’s 25th space shuttle mission, Challenger, left the launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Seventy-three seconds into... Lessons and failures from the Challenger space shuttle ...

KSHB 41 reporter Tod Palmer covers sports business and eastern Jackson County. Share your story idea with Tod. Joyous anticipation. That’s probably the best way to describe the feeling 40 years ago, ...

RAINBOW CITY, Ala. (WIAT) — Forty years after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, communities across northeast Alabama are honoring the crew’s legacy by investing in the future of science, ...

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 ...

Smoke billows in the sky above the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after the explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger on Jan. 28, 1986. Just one day before the Challenger space shuttle exploded over ...