Read full article: INTERACTIVE: The NASA astronauts and employees who died in service to U.S. space exploration January 28th is a Day of Remembrance honoring the lives of the crew and teacher aboard ...

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 ...

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Jan. 28, 1986, 7 spacefarers were killed when shuttle Challenger exploded midair after launching from Kennedy Space Center in ...

It was 40 years ago today (Jan. 28) that the space shuttle Challenger blasted off on its 10th mission to space. Sadly, the vehicle never made it there. Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff ...

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 ...

The mid-1980s may feel distant to today’s Northwestern students. But to me, a 22-year-old senior at the Medill School of Journalism — nearly 40 years ago, today — that time is forever etched in memory ...

Forty years ago, I was at Mission Control at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center for the launch of the Challenger. I was working in data communications. My job was to ensure all telemetry links between ...

CU Boulder has renamed Williams Village East residence hall after astronaut and alum Ellison Onizuka, who died in the 1986 ...

HOUSTON — Forty years ago, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all seven crew members aboard in a tragedy that shocked the nation and reshaped NASA's approach to ...