The Challenger Learning Center is honoring its namesake in 2026, the 40th anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle tragedy ...

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

On a beautiful January morning in 1986, seven crew members, five men and two women, proudly boarded The Space Shuttle Challenger. We saw the crew ...

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

​William Lucas, who has died aged 102, was the director of Nasa’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, the centre responsible for the defective rocket that caused the ...

A flag that survived the Challenger space shuttle explosion in 1986 will be permanently displayed at the Challenger Learning Center in Colorado Springs, offering visitors a tangible connection to one ...

HOUSTON, Texas -- A very special item tucked quietly away aboard NASA's Space Shuttle Challenger before it exploded has finally made it to space, 31 years after the accident. "It was amazing the ...

The space shuttle Discovery voyage (STS-26) on Sept. 29, 1988, was NASA's first return to space shuttle flight about two-and-a-half years after the Challenger disaster that killed all seven crew ...

"On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals, including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on ...

John Denver was a decorated country musician, philanthropist, environmentalist, and, generally, an icon. The man wore a few different hats. And one more to include on that list is that of a pilot’s ...