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 ...

This browser does not support the Video element. Seven astronauts were killed in the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster. Because a teacher was aboard, millions of schoolchildren watched the event ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The memories are painful. Images from that tragic day still haunt those old enough to remember. It's the 40th anniversary of the ...

Mr. Beat tells the story of the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster, which shook NASA and the country as a whole as the first ...

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, ...

Amarillo Little Theatre will present "Defying Gravity," a production based on the 1986 tragedy of the space shuttle Challenger. Challenger broke apart 73 seconds after liftoff, killing all passengers, ...

How Long After Launch Did the Challenger Explode? It’s hard to believe that it’s been 40 years to the day since the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded just 73 seconds after liftoff, in front of the ...

Their eyes were watching. Some knew something was wrong. Others were slow to realize. Soon everyone came to grief. Forty years ago Space Shuttle Challenger climbed into the clear amid blue skies over ...

William Lucas, a key NASA figure during the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, has passed away in Alabama at the age of ...