A generation of schoolchildren in New Hampshire grew up believing that our capacity to do the extraordinary knew no limits.

I viewed her courage with the same awe and respect I saw in the sky full of stars, and I related to her as a woman of my ...

Forty years later, the Challenger Learning Center is asking the public for their own memories of the 1986 space shuttle ...

It’s been 40 years since the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. It was a day the nation slowly realized something had ...

It's been 40 years since the Challenger space shuttle, carrying seven people, took off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center, ...

"I lost my father," Alison Balch said, "but to everyone else, they felt like they lost somebody also." ...

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

Forty years ago, the space shuttle Challenger exploded 73 seconds after liftoff. Seven astronauts were killed, including ...

Ohio native Judith Resnik was a mission specialist on the doomed Space Shuttle Challenger when it exploded shortly after ...

Nasa’s avoidable tragedy exemplified 1980s overconfidence and haunted a generation, but the allure of space exploration endured ...

Americans' attention was torn from the growing conflict in Iraq this Saturday, February 1, when the Space Shuttle Columbia exploded over the skies of Texas. Now, 17 years after the Challenger ...