Bob Ebeling was anxious and angry as he drove to work on the morning of Jan. 28, 1986. He kept thinking about the space shuttle Challenger, cradled on a Florida launchpad 2,000 miles away. Ebeling ...

The Artemis II launch on April 1, was a success. But not all launches have bee. In 1986, 7 members of the Challenger crew were killed in a shocking disaster.

It was the morning of Jan. 28, 1986, when the Space Shuttle Challenger launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida — a moment that would soon become the nation’s worst tragedy ...

A larger-than-life look into feats of manufacturing.

As the final countdown ticked away before Space Shuttle Challenger's launch on January 28, 1986, tens of millions of Americans were riveted to their television screens. A rocket launch was already a ...

Forty years ago, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff. Seven astronauts were killed, including teacher-in-space Christa McAuliffe. It was a devastating blow to the U.S. space ...

At least two Challenger astronauts are believed to have survived the shuttle's explosion, enduring a harrowing 2-minute, 45-second descent before impact ...

NASA. On February 7, 1984, Bruce McCandless II slipped out of space shuttle Challenger and became something no human had ever ...