Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after lift-off. A small team of engineers tried to prevent ...

This week marks forty years since seven astronauts were killed in the space shuttle Challenger accident in 1986. Families of ...

Seven American spacefarers were killed in a tragic event 40 years ago today that has become widely known as the Challenger disaster.

For millions of Americans, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy assassination and 9/11. On that chilly January day in 1986, ...

I watched the Challenger shuttle disaster from inside Mission Control - 40 years ago today ...

it is with deep, heartfelt sorrow. I address you here this afternoon at 11:40 a.m. This morning Space program experienced a national tragedy with the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. But it won’t be there for much longer, perhaps. Discovery, the showpiece of the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, an annex of the ...

Forty years ago today, on the 28th of January 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded live on TV. To the shock of the millions of people watching, the shuttle disintegrated just 73 seconds after ...

Corrections & Clarifications: An earlier version of this story misstated the date of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. It occurred Feb. 1, 2003. For millions of Americans, it was an event that ...