Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Siena Garcia, center, takes an elevator with others during a simulated Mars expedition mission Jan. 16 at the Scobee Education ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Forty years ago, the world watched in horror as NASA's space shuttle Challenger exploded mid-air, killing all seven crew members ...

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 ...

Forty years ago, Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds into its flight, killing its crew of seven and exposing the management culture and decision-making process that led NASA to launch on ...

REMEMBERED ALL OF THIS. CHRISTA GREW UP IN FRAMINGHAM AND ATTENDED COLLEGE HERE AT FRAMINGHAM STATE UNIVERSITY. TODAY, INSIDE THE PLANETARIUM OF THE CHRISTA MCAULIFFE ...

Seven astronauts were killed in the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster. Because a teacher was aboard, millions of schoolchildren watched the event live in school. Forty years later, many of those ...

As the nation commemorates the anniversary of the Challenger space shuttle disaster, here in the islands some members of the community have been paying tribute to crew member Ellison Onizuka — who is ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — January 28, 1986, remains one of the most tragic moments in America’s spaceflight history. After days of delays, Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off from Kennedy Space Center at ...

NASA's Artemis II mission, which will test life support systems and other mechanics during a flyby of the moon, has brought the Challenger disaster to the minds of U.S. space fans once again.