(NASA via AP) In this Jan. 28, 1986, picture, the space shuttle Challenger lifts off from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., shortly before it exploded with a crew of seven aboard.

The unbelievable story behind the ‘most terrifying’ image NASA has ever taken of astronaut Bruce McCandless II who did the first-ever untethered spacewalk.

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who was chosen to go into space in 1986 and teach a class on board the Challenger space shuttle. She and her fellow crew members died after the shuttle exploded shortly after launch. Also read ...

Icons of space flight they undoubtedly are, but the shuttle programme has been marked by very public tragedy. On 28 January 1986, Challenger was set to carry the first American civilian into space.

Seventeen astronauts were lost in the Apollo 1 fire and the Challenger and Columbia space shuttle disasters. The crew of Apollo 1 during training in Florida in January 1967. From left, Virgil "Gus ...

Dr. Farrah Hayes, executive director of the future Challenger Learning Center of Northeast Alabama, shared a glimpse into the center’s space-themed STEM programs and its profound impact on local ...

William Ray Lucas, who led the NASA facility that shouldered much of the blame for the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger, has died. Lucas was 102. Lucas died Monday at his home in ...