The Christa McAuliffe Center at Framingham State plans several events to mark the 40th anniversary of the Challenger disaster ...

Wednesday, Jan. 28, will mark 40 years since the Challenger disaster, forever linking our history of space travel to Concord ...

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

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 ...

For millions of Americans, it was an event that would be seared into their memories for the rest of their lives – on par with the Kennedy assassination and 9/11. On that chilly January day in 1986, ...

The song, "XO," uses six seconds of sample audio from the Challenger disaster. Dec. 30, 2013— -- Beyoncé has been labeled "insensitive" by some current and former NASA astronauts and their ...

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 ...

WHITEHALL, Mich. — The Space Shuttle Challenger explosion was one of those moments in history that you will always remember where you were when they happened. Terry Fett, who now lives in Whitehall, ...

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 ...

San Diego aerospace engineer Wesley Melvin Dreyer spent decades pushing the boundaries of aviation—from developing top-secret defense projects to helping uncover the cause of the Challenger disaster.

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — It was an unusually cold day for Florida on that date, Jan. 28, 1986. The temperature was predicted to be a record low for a Space Shuttle launch. 9:38 a.m. was the launch time ...

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) – Thirty years after the Concord High School class of ’86 watched social studies teacher Christa McAuliffe and six astronauts perish in the Challenger shuttle on live TV, a number ...