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

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.

We're revisiting live broadcasts from Cape Canaveral, with one of the local reporters who covered the launch in real time.

This January NHPR marks the 40th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster with a multi-part series honoring the life, impact, and enduring legacy of Christa McAuliffe, New Hampshire’s ...

Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger knows it was a national tragedy. But dig a little deeper, and it's even more heartbreaking. Man's dishwasher ...

The event features presentations by the Appleton teacher and the NTC employee who helped get an Appleton student's experiment ...

Tragedy forced NASA to evolve. After Columbia burned up on reentry, engineers asked if rescue was possible - while years earlier, Challenger's explosion sparked plans for safer unmanned shuttles.

NASA hopes to repair computer in time for August 7 launch Next Article in U.S. » CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters)-- The U.S. space agency NASA on Thursday confirmed it had discovered the apparent ...

While these hectic productions did all they could to perform miracles, there was simply too much in their way to ultimately ...

It was the nightmare before Christmas. Donald Trump put a dark new spin on the tradition of national presidential addresses Wednesday, conjuring a hellscape of a “dead” nation he claims he was handed ...