Forty years after the Challenger disaster, NPR explores the engineers' last-minute efforts to stop the launch, their decades ...

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 ...

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

Main engine exhaust, solid rocket booster plume and an expanding ball of gas from the external tank is visible seconds after the space shuttle Challenger accident on Jan. 28, 1986. "Flight controllers ...

William R. Lucas, a NASA rocket scientist who helped shape the nation's first satellite as well as its first space station, and who later shouldered part of the blame for the 1986 explosion that ...

Kandice Seiberling and future NASA astronaut Judy Resnik were great childhood friends during the 1950s at Fairlawn Elementary School in Akron, Ohio — they rode bikes and skated together, and ...

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 ...

This Day in History: February 13, 1980 - Winter Olympics open in Lake Placid, NY ...