Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Challenger shuttle crew: (back, L-R) Ellison S Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Greg Jarvis and Judy Resnick. (Front, L-R) Mike ...

The space shuttle Challenger explodes moments after launch on Jan. 28, 1986 from the Kennedy Space Center, killing its seven crewmembers. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge ...

The two solid rocket boosters flew in different directions as the external fuel tank became a fireball.(AP: Bruce Weaver / File) Forty years ago, the Challenger space shuttle disintegrated just after ...

At 8.15 a.m. on Jan. 28, 1986, New Hampshire social-studies teacher Christa McAuliffe sat with her six fellow astronauts ahead of the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger from Kennedy Space Center ...

Bob Ebeling was anxious and angry as he drove to work on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986. He kept thinking about the space shuttle Challenger, cradled on a Florida launchpad 2,000 miles away. Ebeling ...

The author of a new book about the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster is coming to Central Florida for a signing event. Simply titled, “Challenger,” Adam Higginbotham took four years to pore through ...

Tuesday marks the 39th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy.The shuttle exploded 73 seconds after takeoff on Jan. 28, 1986.New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe was one of the seven ...

Though the Challenger disaster brought an end to Teacher in Space, educators in the years since have found other paths to orbit. Barbara Morgan, an elementary school teacher who had trained as ...

On the morning of January 28, 1986, seven crew members were killed when the space shuttle Challenger broke apart a little over a minute after it launched. Those killed included five NASA astronauts, ...

ORLANDO, Fla. – The 1986 late January freeze is one many will never forget, and the consequences of it caused a historic tragedy. Not only did temperatures tumble to 22 degrees in Daytona Beach and 26 ...