But just 73 seconds after blast-off, the shuttle burst into flames, leaving a cloud of smoke in the sky before it plummeted into the ocean. Shortly after taking off, the boosters gave off some ...

The five crew members launched on the three-day jaunt ... A year later, the Space Shuttle Challenger would launch under similar conditions and be lost. Roger Boisjoly, an engineer at Morton ...

CONCORD, NH (WGME) -- A beloved teacher who was headed for space is being remembered with a new statue. Christa McAuliffe was a social studies teacher from Concord, New Hampshire, who was chosen ...

Thirty years ago this weekend, after a two and a half year stand down and an extremely difficult external- and self-examination of a lack of safety within the program, NASA succeeded in returning ...

Andrew 'Andy' Freed is most well-known for being a Purdue professor, teaching notable classes taken by a large majority of ...

On Thursday, three decades will have passed since seven astronauts lost their lives onboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. A WJXT original documentary looks back at that day to see what went so ...

Divers looking for World War Two aircraft wreckage off Florida have found debris from the 1986 Challenger space shuttle disaster ... by Gem O'Reilly Community members in the small town of Chelsea ...