Jan. 28, 1986, 7 spacefarers were killed when shuttle Challenger exploded midair after launching from Kennedy Space Center in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 28th January 1986: An abstract smoke pattern after the space shuttle Challenger explosion, Kennedy Space Center, Florida.Dave ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the Challenger explosion, which occurred 73 seconds after liftoff on Jan. 28, 1986, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Forty years ago, the world watched in horror as NASA's space shuttle Challenger exploded mid-air, killing all seven crew members aboard. The disaster occurred at what was then the pinnacle of the U.S.

Forty years ago today, Americans were stunned, shocked and saddened when the Challenger space shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff on a cold, cloudless day in Florida. A booster leak ignited the ...