JACKSON – Staff, students, former students and parents came out to say goodbye to the Christa McAuliffe Middle School during ...

Jan. 28, 1986, was the day NASA’s carefully cultivated image literally blew up at 46,000 feet.

Physicist and astronaut Ride, who died of pancreatic cancer in 2012 at the age of 61, is best remembered as the first ...

The destruction of the Challenger space shuttle was violent and devastating. Yet somehow, a single piece of athletic ...

NASA and Northrop Grumman successfully tested the most powerful segmented solid rocket motor ever created at Promontory Point ...

From the world watching in horror as the Challenger space shuttle exploded to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that upended ...

MERRITT ISLAND, Fla. — It's been 39 years since the Challenger space shuttle, carrying seven people, took off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, exploding in mere minutes. The disaster ...

KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — The world was shocked and saddened 39 years ago after the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy. WATCH CHANNEL 9 EYEWITNESS NEWS ...

The Space Shuttle Challenger STS-51L mission was expected to deploy a communications satellite and study Halley’s Comet. McAuliffe was part of the Teacher in Space Project, which was meant to ...

After the Columbia disaster, shuttle flights were again grounded. On Jan. 14, 2004, President George W. Bush announced a “new vision” for the nation’s space exploration program.

The bulletin for the Challenger disaster was no doubt labeled “FLASH,” meaning the event had “transcendent” urgency. A flash was sent with 12 bells.